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Mull, Storm Coming |
Still Life with Tea Pot |
Her art training began at the Canterbury College of Art
and later at the Regent Street Polytechnic resulting her gaining the
National Diploma in Design in sculpture and letter cutting.
After graduation, she fulfilled many commissions of letter cutting and
portrait sculptures, mainly of children. Janet later taught art, for many
years, in several comprehensive schools in Staffordshire.
Commissions for portrait sculptures continued for many of the early years
together with taking part in one and two person exhibitions in Staffordshire
where she lived at that time.
In the Precinct of Canterbury Cathedral, there are wooden benches with
memorial inscriptions cut into them by Janet.
Careful drawing of observational study and the human figure became an, all important, foundation for her work and the love of drawing with all its difficulties. This led naturally, for Janet, to the use of pastels without all the paraphernalia of wet paint, brushes, and palettes, etc.
