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Award winning artist working in acrylic, oil, pastel, watercolour and mixed media creating portraits, life drawings, landscape and still life artworks, illustrations and murals
“Janet Hayes is an artist whose love for landscape, still life, and the figure is carried through media such as pastel, acrylic, charcoal and oil. Her practice is rooted in life drawing and observational work; she values sensitive, free-flowing line, building explanatory stories through objects, composition, colour, tone. She is fascinated especially by effects of water: reflections, flow, what lies beneath surfaces. In her recent work, her Tasmanian Series, she has responded to the wilderness of Tasmania, doing plein air studies, sketching, photographing, and then working in the studio to transport those experiences into larger, richly coloured works.
In Janet’s art we see a devotion to seeing: to observing the subtle shifts of light, the poetry of colour, and the visceral beauty of form. Whether in landscape, in still life, or in figure, her technique is both disciplined and expressive—grounded in classical training (life drawing, portraiture) yet alive with spontaneous gesture and softness.”
Cetta Pilati , Gallery Manager, Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn,Vic, 2025, Quadrant Art Fair Exhibition