Janet Milner is a contemporary artist and printmaker and has been a PMC member since 2014, she lives in Rye, East Sussex. Over the years Janet has made prints at Artichoke Print Studio and London Print Studio, she now works from her studio in Rye.
Printmaking has been a key and consistent presence in her work throughout her art career which spans more than 40 years. Janet has a BA in Printed Textiles from Liverpool Polytechnic and more recently an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell UAL.
“Printmaking for me”..she says “I love not knowing what it’s going to turn out like..the accidents are the best, that’s when the magic happens,..It’s extremely addictive’.
She’s become known for her ongoing series of text based works which she calls ‘Unremarkable Sentences’
Subject matter:
A joke, a gesture, a thought, a memory, Janet presents them as thrown down remarks.
She draws on the everyday things that surround her, herself, family, pets, feelings, memories, to create artworks that are playful and intriguing conversation pieces.
Process
Prefers more accessible painterly printmaking techniques that require no acid or technology..monotypes, woodcuts and drypoint.
Janet enjoys the immediacy and expressive freedom that working with monotypes has. Over the last 10 years she has focussed on developing techniques for making watercolour monotypes.
Janet is a member of the Rye Society of Artists and a Rye Art Gallery Artist
Shows etc.she has exhibited widely in the UK, highlights include: Royal Academy Summer Show, Art Sales at The Keepers House at The Royal Academy, Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Royal Society of Watercolour, Discerning Eye, National Original Print at Bankside Gallery, RE: The Masters Relief, Bankside Gallery RE: The Masters Mono-print Bankside Gallery, Sussex Open at Towner Eastbourne, ‘The Art of The Printmaker’ Rye Art Gallery, Sussex Contemporary at Worthing Museum, London Art Fair, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Bonhams TEXT ME IF YOU CAN CONTEMPORARY EDITIONS X WOOLWICH CONTEMPORARY PRINT FAIR, Multiplied Print Fair Christies, London Original Print Fair, The Hepworth Print Fair.
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