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Janet Skea RI


 Lace 
 
 Feathers 
 
   
Janet was born in 1947, Johannesburg, South Africa. She gained a B.A. Fine Art in 1964 at Stellenbosch University Then in 1983 B.A. Open University, UK.
She was Elected Member in 2002 to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours
After teaching watercolour at Penzance Art School she moved to France in 2007.
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Regular exhibitions at Manya Igel Fine Arts, Lincoln Joyce, Great Bookham and Mall Galleries.
Her Awards, and Prizes include: Arts Club Award, 2006, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Member’s Award, 2004 Talenz Watercolour Prize, Tregastel,;France, 1998; Henri Lidchi Prize, 1967 and 1968.
Publications include: Articles in ‘Artists & Illustrators’, 1996 and 2002
‘Watercolour Workshop’, John Lidzey, Harpercollins, 1995
‘Artists’ Kew’, Royal Botantical Gardens, Kew, 2006

“My subject matter is still life. I love the quiet delights of everyday things, folded or rumpled cloth. I also explore less conventional ways of composing objects and cloth. My aim as a painter is to produce a finished, two-dimensional work. “