Janet Mazenier is a contemporary visual artist living in Te Hau Kapua Devonport in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Janet's practice engages with place, time, affect, world bending, and materiality. Her drawn-paintings are characterised by texturally rich, excavated, and striated surfaces that evoke ancientness, the hidden, the unseen, and the ephemeral.

Janet's paintings are created using oil paint mixed with beeswax (known as cold wax medium), enabling a low-toxic practice that results in beautiful textural works.

In this episode we talk about how Janet got started as a full time artist 13 years ago after a corporate career, her experience gaining a masters degree in fine art at Whitecliffe School of Art in Auckland and going on to complete a PHD in Creative Practice at Elam School of Fine Art, which she completed in March 2026. Janet describes the medium of cold wax, its qualities, how it is made and applied and the effects she achieves with this medium in her paintings. We explore concepts around contextual and conceptual thinking, the ideas behind Janet's work related to heritage and place and her involvement in 2 formative artist residencies in Ireland. We talk scale, art collectives, collaboration, working with light, time and responding to the land.

Janet teaches a number of creative classes that encompass painting, drawing, collage and critical thinking, and is also offering one-on-one mentoring for creatives who wish to have a guiding hand to navigate your way through your creative practice. https://www.creativeconnections.nz/post/janet-mazenier-contemporary-visual-artist

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