janet thomas - AKA Jaytee
........has been painting, on and off, since childhood - but not with any regularity until moving to Herefordshire in 2002. Since then she has had a joint exhibition at Erwood Station Gallery and a solo exhibition at Ludlow Assembly Rooms Cafe Gallery Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 and several works featured on RedBubble ('Catherine', 'The Jigsaw' and 'The Fishing Lesson'). Janet is a professional member of the SAA and, as 'Jaytee', of two international internet art forums Painting Friends and Wet Canvas!
Her 'style' has in recent years developed in a direction unusual for watercolourists, in that it involves more 'blending' and less 'glazing' and fewer washes than does traditional watercolour. Sometimes her work is even mistaken for pastels! Her current style (and this is constantly evolving) is neither very 'loose' nor photorealistic but somewhere in between and is highly suited to portraiture : she specialises in childrens portraits on commission.
In the past she has used Gouache and may well start re-incorporating this into her work as well as exploring the possibilities of Acrylics and Mixed Media in the form of 'Altered Books'
Some of Janet's paintings and photographs are available as prints and cards etc at her Redbubble Site
If you cannot find what you want there, let her know and she can arrange to have it available
Previously, after a long career in BBC Radio and many years as a producer on 'Woman's Hour' Janet trained as, and became a registered member of The Society of Garden Designers. Though she no longer pursues this activity professionally, her own garden is her passion ........... taking most of her creative energy in the growing season. She started a Garden Blog in 2008 but while finding time to take hundreds of photographs.... somehow does not often manage to find time to load them ......so is now showing 2008 Garden Photos on faster photobucket and now 2009 pics on Facebook From time to time she opens her garden for charity, either solo or as part of 'Kington Open Gardens'
Here is a self portrait painted in September 2009
