Born in the small town of Trail, in the Kootenay district of B.C., Janice's earliest impressions were from a childhood amongst the mountains, lakes and rivers. She graduated from the Academic Fine Arts, at a high school level, not knowing her direction in life. The greatest influence would be from a trip to visit her sister in Holland. Read more...

It was the Dutch Masters that laid the foundation for a life in the arts. In the early 80’s Janice made a living with an occasional Oil painting, Stained Glass and Sandblasting. She attended college for commercial studies in Graphic Design and computers in the late 80's. Janice continued with a working knowledge of many art mediums and printing techniques from water colour, oil, gouache, silk screening, photography, offset lithography, to Giclee printing.

After several years Janice returned to her painting, full time. The years of training have merged to produce art that moves away form high realism towards images that capture the essence of the subject with the use of textures, atmospheric colour and lighting.

In 2009, Janice returned to Europe to study Egg Tempera and Fresco techniques in Florence, Italy.

Her interest in photography continued and is the inspiration for the images she paints. Janice has developed a painting technique using marble dust, leafing, drawing,acrylic and oil glazes up to 100 layers to achieve a depth of colour that interplays with the light across the canvas.