Janiz Chan is drawn to dance and sports and his female protagonists would figure in a surreal feminine ambience of flowers and fruits. Often, the faces would be obscured by a butterfly motif, not only to hide identity but also a sign of coyness. It’s a hunky-dory world, a fresh-faced girl amidst Nature in her sleeveless camisole, looking on with hope and positivity. She incorporated dance in her works after watching an Indian dance performance in Rimbun Dahan in Kuang two years ago. This work was meant for the Tokyo Art Fair last year. Apart from being attuned to the environs, Janiz also shows in her works an affinity with animals. Janiz graduated with a Diploma in Graphic Design from the Malaysian Institute of Art in 1988, and spent the next 15 years in advertising in firms like Dandridge, JW Thompson and DYR. She decided to go fulltime into art in 2007 and is represented by, among others, Galerie Waterton in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. The gallery was formerly based in Singapore. Her first solo, AdLib, was at the Lookiss Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 2008. She took part in the Singapore Affordable Art Fair in 2011 and had a solo, Tease, at the Artesan Gallery, Singapore, in 2012. She had a self-funded Le 100 three-week divan (sofa) residency in Paris in September 2017. In 2014, she held a solo, Rhythm, at PINKGUY gallery in Kuala Lumpur, and in 2016, she had a solo called Blossoms at the Galeri Waterton in Chicago.