en Plein Aire' painting days.
This unique group was formed after a conversation at a Life Drawing session with Bill Hancock, who is a landscape painter. We have met as a group every Thursday morning at dawn and have done for the past seven years.
Locations differ every week, locally in the Sarina area to areas north of Mackay and to the coast at Far Beach. Our group's participants have changed over the years but the consistency hasn't. We meet earlier in the hot summers of this area and a little later in what can be very cool mornings of winter!
 
								Janet was born in South Australia to Jewish/English migrant parents who encouraged a multicultural life in their new Australian home.
Influenced by her tutors, including Adelaide's Jam Factory potter, Bruce Sellick through the Stanley Street School of Art, who encoraged her distinct drawing style, and later by landscape and portrait artists Terry and Lorraine Lewitzka, Janet was inspired to confidently explore her unique way of looking at her subjects.
Working with a diverse range of mediums and materials, Janet has never been afraid to experiment, keeping her work fresh and alive with movement and emotion. In recent years she has been working predominantly in charcoal and oils paints, beautifully capturing the character, light and life of her subjects, whether they be people from her local community, or the vast landscapes that dominate the South Australian coastline, or the canefields and mountains of her North Queensland home.
Janet has worked on community projects exploring the multicultural diversity within the Mackay region.
EDUCATION
										
										Bachelor of Arts – Communication & Media, Griffith University, Brisbane 
										Art & Craft Certificate – Stanley Street School of Art, North Adelaide
									
SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
                                        2022 - Shed Happens, International Men's Day exhibition, Mackay 
                                        2022 - Art on the Hill, Slade Point, Mackay
 
                                        2022 - The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Exhibition
                                        2021 - Queensland Regional Art Awards, Consolidated Properties Group, Brisbane
                                        2020 - Conversations with Australian South Sea Islanders: a missing chapter from Australian history, Foundation Gallery, Artspace, Mackay
                                        
                                        2019 - Flying Arts Alliance - Seasonal sittings of Tiny Art Spring Exhibition - JWCOCA, Brisbane 
                                                 
                                        2019 - Conversations with Gloria on the verandah, Jubilee Community Centre, Mackay
                                        2019 - Conversations with Australian South Sea Islanders, Brisbane Multi-Cultural Centre
                                        2019 - Plantation Voices, State Library, Brisbane
										
                                        2018 - Articulate, Postcard Exhibition, Artspace, Mackay
                                                                                
										2018 - Windows to the World - Oceania, The Centre, Beaudesert
										
										2017 - Fruit Salad Café, Judith Wright Centre, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
										
										2017 - 'Kitchen and Kin' Group Exhibition, ASSI Meeting Hut, Mackay
										
										2017 - Pet Portraits, Artspace, Mackay 
										
										2017 - 40 x 40 square, Brunswick Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
										
										2016 - Paxton's Portrait Prize, Mackay 
										
										2016 - Pioneer Valley Arts , Pinnacle 
										
										2016 - Art on Show, Mackay
										
										2015 - Paxton's Portrait Prize, Mackay 
										
										2010 - 2016 Red Poles Art Gallery, McLaren Vale, South Australia
										
										2006 - "Visual Feast", McLaren Vale Grape, Wine & Tourism, South Australia
										
										2005 - "Artists at Play", Middleton Mill, Middleton, South Australia
										
										2004 - "Impressions of the Creative Soul", Whalers Inn, Encounter Bay, South Australia
										
										2004 - "Nudes Only" Works of seven Fleurieu Peninsula artists, Goolwa, South Australia
										
										2002 - "Paradiso" South Australian Living Artists, Adelaide, South Australia
										
										2001 - "Fleurieu Peninsula Artists", Ron Adams Art Gallery, Victor Harbor, South Australia
										
										2000 - "Art Affare", Stirling, South Australia
										
										2000 - Art Affair, Woodstock Winery, McLaren Vale, South Australia
										
										1998 - Solo Exhibition, Lombard Art Gallery, Adelaide
										
										1998 - 2005 Kensington Art Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
										
										1996 - Hahndorf Academy, Country Arts Trust, Hahndorf, South Australia
										
										1995 - Solo Exhibition, Telegraph Station Gallery, Victor Harbour, South Australia
									
AWARDS
                                                                                2022 - Best in show, Shed Happens, International Men's Day exhibition, Mackay 
                                                                                2022 - Finalist Queensland Regional Art Awards/The Merv Moriarty Landscape Award 
                                                                                2022 - Finalist Australian Artist's Book Prize/Libris Award
									        2021 - Finalist Queensland Regional Art Awards/The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape  Award
									    
									        2020 - Finalist, John Villiers Outback Art Prize, Winton, Queensland
                                        
                                                                                2019 - Pioneer Valley Arts - 1st and 2nd Prize
                                        
										2018 - Finalist, Waverley Woollahra Arts School, 9 x 5 Landscape Prize
										
										2018 - Articulate, Postcard Exhibition, Artspace, Mackay - 1st Prize
										
										2018 - Pioneer Valley Arts - 1st Prize 
										
										2018 - Pioneer Valley Arts - People's Choice Award
										
										2018 - Art on Show - Special Mentions for Works on Paper and Easel Painting 
										
										2017 - Pioneer Valley Arts - 1st Prize Open Section
										
										2016 - Paxton's Portrait Prize - Paxton's, Mackay, Highly Commended
										2016 - Pioneer Valley Arts - People's Choice Award
										
										2016 - Pioneer Valley Arts - 1st Prize - Open Section - Drawing
										
										2016 - Pioneer Valley Arts - 1st Prize - Open Section - Seascapes and Landscapes 
										
										2015 - Inaugural Paxton's Portrait Prize - 1st Prize - Drawing
										
										
										1998 - Highly Commended, Goolwa Art Prize
										
										1997 - Highly Commended, Goolwa Art Prize
										
										1996 - State of the Arts, Country Arts Trust SA. People's Choice Award