The natural environment that surrounds her informs Janet's art. For as long as she remembers she has always felt more at home and ease in a country environment, rather than in an urban space. Although she grew up in Adelaide on a 1/4-acre block, her heart always yearned for the open spaces of country life and eventually she had opportunities to experience the joys of country living. Today, due to changing circumstances, she finds herself dwelling once again in the urban environment. However, she says, now she is equipped to use her experiences to re-create the feeling of country in her own surroundings. In her spare time, when she's not tending chooks, gardening and volunteering with Riding for the Disabled, she spends most of her time in her studio, doing what she loves, painting.

Janet had not considered her much neglected artistic skills would ever amount to anything, until by some miracle, she found herself enrolled in a Degree to study a Bachelor of Art (Fine Art and Visual Culture). She completed her degree in 2016, and has continued to hone and develop her painting skills ever since. Her art is, to her, a conversation between herself, the subject and the medium. It is an expression she says, of how she sees her environment, her understanding of it and how it affects her. It is about capturing moments in time, which may emerge from reality or abstraction of thought, and is always informed by nature.

Janet hopes her work resonates in a way that inspires others to stop, look and explore the expression that the natural environment affords us each and every day of our lives. She says, by doing this, it is a very mindful practice that causes one to 'look out' from themselves, to reflect and take with them, wisdom and learning, if we care to listen and observe.