Janet Ayliffe

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 years her own private classes. She also conducts printmaking workshops in Sydney and Canberra.

Janet’s work has been shown in many exhibitions, with approximately fifteen one-person shows, which include the Adele Boag Gallery, Greenhill Gallery and Adelaide Festival Centre visual art space. Prizes include 2006 Section Winner and 2011 Finalist for the Waterhouse Natural History prize, MASTERWORKS Best in Show 2007, MASTERWORKS 2009 People’s Choice Award Winner and five times winner of Works on Paper, Victor Harbour. 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.