Janet Tava’s art is described as Asian, Chinese, Elegance in Nature, Art in Motion and has been used in the home décor industry for many years. With the Internet, today we have access to many of her artworks that would normally be considered expensive items for a small fraction of the cost. An example would be the Manual Woodworkers and Weavers Gold Medallion, which is an orchid in a vase design. The art on this beautiful tapestry wall hanging is by Janet Tava from her Art in Motion collection. It measures 26″ x 47″, and consists of cotton materials. It is backed with a lining that has a tunnel for a rod so you can hang it in your home.

Janet Tava’s love affair with the beauty of nature began as a child at her parents’ summer cabin by the lake. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts, she became a designer for Karl Mann, a design studio that has pioneered the decorative arts industry. For 12 years she was in charge of the Orientalia Painting Department.

Today, Janet lives with her husband Eugene and daughter Alexandria in a Weehawken, New Jersey, Victorian home that has the same natural elegance she fell in love with as a child. She continues to capture in her works, images that allow her soul to touch ours, today she works with her husband from her house in Tava Studios.

Janet’s artwork has been written about in Art Business News, Twentieth Century Literature, Dance Magazine, Architectural Digest, Metropolitan Homes, House Beautiful, Vogue, and House & Garden. Her artwork is all over the world in galleries, museums and is used by various designers and firms today. She has artwork in the South African and Saudi embassies, in King Hussein’s Palace, and even in New York’s Tavern on the Green. She has won the Roscoe Award for her artwork in the Executive Suites at the Plaza Hotel in New York.

Janet’s artwork spans not only canvases, prints, posters, and other handmade products, but she has also painted many murals and ceilings on historic buildings, most notably the Children’s Chapel in the historic Collegiate Church of Marble (the only formal Children’s Chapel in the United States) and the restored Martin Coryell House in Lambertville, New Jersey. Private collectors of her artwork include Jane Seymour and Dizzy Gillespie, and you and me, if we so choose.

When asked about her work, Janet said, “I feel like my work is a representation of my soul… light, airy and ever-changing.”