Janet Treby

The youngest of four children born in London in 1955 and raised in a small village in the country Bedfordshire. I have always loved the countryside and I have a great passion for wildlife. It was at the age of about 11 years that I realized that I wanted to be an artist and I had achoice between art and the art or acting livestock. Having taken this decision I was on a mission out of the school and embarked on a two-year course based Barnfield College Luton, followed by a degree in the West Surrey College of Art and Design specializes in sculpture and engraving.

After learning many skills there after I went to the Slade School of Fine Art and completed two years of graduate school in the engraving.

While at the Slade School started lecturing specializing in woodcut engraving.

Upon leaving college, I lived in a studio apartment in Wapping, East London and I suppose I could say that was the 'bohemian artist' thing. He had already established a successful relationship with a gallery called Gallery Curwen, who gave me my first exposure of women in the'80s. He also won some awards-'The Lloyds Young Printmaker of the Year' and 'Elizabeth Greenshields award which allowed me to paint for a year. Over all this in the'80s I was doing other conferences and various jobs to support myself and my art. However, despite that made me realize how difficult it is to earn a living, I was still only interested in painting full-time, I knew that I did not want to lecture full-time or do any other work for the subject of the painting was and remains my passion!