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Janet was born on Kangaroo Island, where she lived for eighteen years. She graduated in 1972 in Fine Art Painting from the S.A. School of Art, and later gained a Post Graduate Dip Teaching. Janet has been a printmaker and painter for over thirty years, teaching in TAFE, Flinders University, The Ruth Tuck Art School for Children, and, for ten years, her own private classes. She also conducts printmaking workshops in Sydney and Canberra.
Janet’s work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, with approximately fifteen one-person shows, which include The Adele Boag Gallery, Greenhill Gallery and Adelaide Festival Centre visual art space. Prizes include section winner for the 2006 Waterhouse Natural History prize, and five times winner of Works on Paper, Victor Harbour. Her work is in public and private collections in Australia, Britain, Europe, Japan, Canada and the USA. She has designed for the ‘Come Out Youth Arts Festival’, and been an illustrator for Penguin Omnibus.
The images draw from her inner life, her family and the surrounding landscape of the Adelaide Hills, and that of her childhood home on Kangaroo Island. Recently she exhibited at Art Melbourne 06 and 07. In November 2006, her latest solo showing at The Adele Boag Gallery in Unley Road was an outstanding success.
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