TECHNIQUES
Although I have dabbled with other media I am happier using watercolour on paper and occasionally watercolour pencils.

APPROACH AND INSPIRATION
I became inspired at a very young age to appreciate the natural world by my parents and particularly wild flowers through the PNEU syllabus and my mother who was an accomplished painter and PNEU teacher.  I was again inspired to take up painting on my retirement by seeing Patricia Jorgensen’s work.

BIOGRAPHY
At a PNEU boarding school this interest continued and during holidays relations and friends took me on botanical expeditions and encouraged me to paint specimens (without drawing them first).   Since retiring I have been to classes given by two artists (Jean Stronge and Declan Boyle) in Dublin (not specifically botanical) and many of Patricia Jorgensen’s courses and master classes.

EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
Exibited in Dalkey with others from Jean Stronge’s students on several occasions and twice solo in The Rathgar Bookshop, 2012 and 2016.
Aibítir: The Irish Alphabet in Botanical Art, ISBA exhibition at National Botanic Gardens 2014
Heritage Irish Plants – Plandaí Oidhreachta, ISBA exhibition at National Botanic Gardens 2016

MEMBERSHIPS
Irish Society of Botanical Artists

CONTACT
janetbockett1936@gmail.com