Jana Skarecky

Photography

Photographs from Jana's Light and Shadow, Iceland series were featured in Luminous 2025, a photography exhibition at Heliconian Hall in Toronto 

"The photographs for the Light and Shadow, Iceland series were taken in Iceland in September 2024. Sunlight and shadow, mist and mountains, rock and rainbow create a landscape of dramatic contrasts between brightness and darkness, heat and cold, clarity and mystery." 
Luminous 2025 Exhibit Catalogue is HERE. 
The Light and Shadow song cycle (music by Jana Skarecky, poetry by Kate Marshall Flaherty) is here:  https://youtu.be/mFfNkDs9qi8

Photographs from Jana's Hues of Iceland series were featured in Luminous 2024, a photography exhibition at Heliconian Hall in Toronto 

"These photographs were taken in Iceland in September 2023. While thinking of Iceland may conjure up images of black lava or white snow and ice, the country also has many shades of green, crimson blueberry fields, jewel-bright moss..."  
Luminous 2024 Exhibit Catalogue: 
https://torontoheliconianclub.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/catalogue_luminous24.pdf

Photographs from Jana's Radiance series were featured in Luminous 2022, a photography exhibition at Heliconian Hall in Toronto 

"These photographs were taken near the Grand River in Cayuga, Ontario (Kinsmen Park) in November 2020. I love the sun shinging through trees - it speaks to me of brightness and life."  
Luminous 2022 Exhibit Catalogue is available HERE.

Photographs from Jana's Dawn at Mahone Bay series were featured in Luminous 2021, a photography exhibition at Heliconian Hall in Toronto 

"While visiting Mahone Bay in Nova Scotia in the summer of 2019, I woke up early one morning and went for a walk. It was dawn, and the sky over the sea was turning from blue to orange… coolness in the air, the water still as glass, all very quiet. A breath before the world awoke – a sense of anticipation and of hope." 
Luminous 2021 Catalogue: HERE

Photographs from Jana's Crystal Moments and Frozen Treasures series were featured in Luminous 2020, a photography exhibition at Heliconian Hall in Toronto

"A burning bush in our garden is the source of Frozen Treasures. Crystal Moments come from the countryside near where I live. With every twig covered in ice, the trees take on the life of colour and sparkle with an inner beauty in the light of the sunrise. Sunrise is the beginning of a day not yet lived, a day we can fill with whatever we choose. Sunrise brings promise and hope.”

Photographs from Jana's Upward series were featured in the Luminous 2019 photography exhibition at Heliconian Hall in Toronto

In the summer of 2018, I traveled to Greece. An amazing country of light and colour, sun and shade, hills and valleys – everything is either uphill or up stairs! But the effort and energy it takes to climb can bring a breathtaking view, a quiet courtyard, or a blossom... Life often surprises us that way.”