A lifelong need to make.

Janet's Artistic Journey

Janet has always made things.

Before painting became central to the work, Janet worked as a stylist with Vidal Sassoon, developing an eye for form, balance and detail. Designing and making clothing followed, continuing a lifelong relationship with making by hand and responding to materials directly.

After moving from England to Laguna Beach, California with family, Janet found new inspiration in the landscape, light and creative communities nearby. Painting became another chapter in a much longer creative life, eventually expanding into sculpture, ceramics and mixed media.

Across each medium, the same interests continue to return: nature, people, time, texture and memory.

Artistic Philosophy

Janet does not create work to tell people what to think.

Janet creates work that leaves space for personal interpretation. One person may respond to colour. Another may notice texture, movement, memory or a feeling they cannot quite name. That openness is part of the work.

For Janet, the idea comes first. Some ideas become paintings. Others become sculpture, ceramics or mixed media. The medium follows what the work seems to need.

Professional Experience

Decades of making, observing and experimenting.

Janet's practice has developed over decades of making, observing and experimenting. The work includes original paintings, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media pieces and private commissions.

Janet's artwork belongs in homes, private collections and thoughtfully designed spaces where originality, craftsmanship and personal connection matter.

In Private Collections

At home in the spaces they belong to.

A few of Janet's works, now in private collections, photographed where they live. Each began as a conversation and found its place in a home.

Go Deeper into the Work

Studio Notes offer a closer look at what Janet is noticing, making, testing and exploring as the work evolves.