About the Artist

     Janice Garrett is an artist in Kalamazoo, MI. With a degree in art education from WMU, she taught elementary art in Kalamazoo Public Schools for 19 years and earned a Masters in Studio Art at EMU. She is a member of the Michigan Watercolor Society, SWMWCS, and an associate member of NWS and AWS.

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Nature is inspiration for me. Many of the flowers I paint are in my garden so that they can be photographed in just the right light. I look for beauty in the little things; the way sunlight can make flower petals look like stained glass, or seeing unexpected colors hiding in a landscape.

I am drawn to exciting colors, reflections, and patterns. I arrange a still life and photograph it in sunlight to create my reference material for painting. I love the part of solving visual problems in the process of painting. There's something satisfying about figuring out how to make it work and there is always something new to learn.