Janet Green is one of Australians foremost still life painters. Born in 1942, Green studied at RMIT Melbourne in the 1960’s. Green found influence in the great Flemish, Dutch and Spanish masters, it was “ their love of the smallest details of everyday life, as seen in the landscape, their everyday utensils and their food “ that allured Green to explore this further in her own work.
Green has travelled through the Hunter, the high country out from Canberra, the Great Australian Bite, Broome, North West, WA and the Flinders Ranges. While both components, the still life and the landscape are equally important in the work, it is the landscape that inspires the choice of the still life. Subject, colour, shape and texture are related to the landscape, hence the still life objects maybe not be directly related to or be derived from the portrayed landscape.
There is uniformity in Green’s landscape compositions and her colour palette tantalise and seduce the viewer. She presents stunning Australian scenery with captivating reality. Expressing the minutest detail in the flora and fauna that she paints. Her ability to capture all the tone and colour in the last afternoon rays, to impeccable water reflections is remarkable. Green’s paintings praise the sheer delight of food and nature.
Janet has been exhibiting for 20 years.