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Janet Treby
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Janet
Treby 1955 –
The youngest
of four children, Treby was born in London in 1955 and grew up in a small country village in Bedfordshire. She always loved
the countryside and had a great passion for wildlife. It was around the age of eleven that she realized she wanted to become
an artist and had a choice between art or acting and art won. Having made this choice she was on a mission upon leaving school
and embarked on a two-year foundation course at Barnfield College in Luton, followed by a degree at West Surrey College of
Art and Design specializing in printmaking and sculpture. Upon leaving
college Treby lived in a studio apartment in Wapping, East London and did the ‘bohemian artist’ thing. She had
already built up a successful relationship with a gallery called the Curwen Gallery who gave Treby her first one-women exhibition
in the 80s. Treby also won a few awards – 'The Lloyds Young Printmaker of the Year' and the 'Elizabeth Greenshield award’,
which allowed her to paint for a year. Throughout all of this in the 80’s she was lecturing and doing other various
jobs to support herself and her art. However, although it made her realize just how hard it was to earn a living, she was
still only interested in painting full-time, Treby knew that she did not want to lecture full-time or do any other job for
that matter – painting was her passion and still is! |
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Striving
for purity in form and content Janet Treby's individual sense of color, the ability to convey mood and her mastery of drawing
has gained international attention. She uses the strength and character of the female form to convey the most important elements
of her work - subject and emotion. Treby
specializes in mezzotint, etching, and serigraphy to illustrate the human form with grace and tenderness. Muted colors give Janet’s artwork a dreamlike, peaceful quality.
The atmospheric feeling found in her work combined with her meticulous and highly developed drawing skill has made
her work a favorite among collectors internationally for many years. Janet has
enjoyed a career of teaching at West Surrey College of Art and Design, as well as lecturing at Ruskin School of Drawing in
Oxford, Barnfield College in Luton, and lecturing on mezzotint at Southill Park College at Bracknell. Exhibitions include: 1977 Royal
Society of Etchers, England 1977 Touring Exhibition of Australia 1977 Stowells Trophy Exhibition, England 1982/84 Curwen Gallery,
England 1982 Southhill Park Gallery, England 1982 The Figure, England 1987 Curwen Gallery, England 1992 St. Hellier Gallery
1992 Channel Islands 1993 Tias, Tokyo, Japan 1992 Art Multiple, Dusseldorf, Germany 1995 The Studio, Longrove, USA 1997 The
Studio, Longrove, USA 1997 The Ambassador Gallery, N.Y., USA |
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