Janeil Tamayo Famacion is a self taught artist since the COVID-19 shut down. In order to cope with the uncertainty of COVID, she started off by sketches and thus started her art journey. Post COVID shutdown, painting became a therapeutic method to help navigate her PTSD. She then assumed the nickname “Janjan” as her artist name, reminding her of the inner child that shines through her art. With a Filipino American ethnic background and queer identity, along with her progress of SA recovery, Janeil’s art shares her own unique experience of rediscovering her feminine identity and psychology through images of natural elements combined with feminine figures, unique abstract patterns, and vivid storytelling. Her works often use various female figures and faces, intertwined with natural elements to convey the story behind her own gender identity and her emotions. While other works display an abstract meditative practice, allowing her mind to see beyond the traumas of her past, fade the worries of the future, and focus on the present in abstract linework in a “paisley” inspired pattern. Such artwork gave Janjan the opportunity to live paint at Still Dream Festival 2024 in Wilseyville, California, appear in the November’s Art Collective, by Maker’s Paradise in Reno, Nevada, and appeared in a few galleries in Reno, Nevada hosted by Sierra Arts Foundation and Maker’s Paradise. Currently, Janjan specializes in portraits, acrylic paint on stretched canvas, mixed media, and other mediums such as polymer clay, gouache and watercolor and sketching. Janjan hopes her art resonates to those who are currently trying to understand their own gender identity, appreciating the divine feminine energy as different natural elements, and sees the power behind recovering from sexual trauma.