Janet Waring

News: Solo Exhibiton at the Basement Gallery, 28 January - 10 March

Janet Waring's work uses a personal notion and visual language to communicate a shared sense of existence and descent. Her work explores the intrinsic connections between intellectual, emotional and cognitive experience and our experience of the physical and natural world. The work is a physical manifestation of a stream of consciousness. Janet Waring’s interest is in resolving works that embody an unwillingness to categorize knowledge or formulate theories. She is interested in the concept of ‘negative capability’ as termed by the romantic poet, Keats and expanded upon by philosopher and social theorist Roberto Mangabeira Unger. These paintings express a spiritual belief in an uncontrolled, indefinable, and beautiful order within the boundless chaos that is all that we are and all that we know.

She is an artist Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, reflecting an explicit interest in natural history. She studied botany and zoology at Manchester University where she graduated with honors prior to moving to Florence, where she acquired the more formal aspects of her artistic education. Here she studied painting techniques and methods over a ten-year period. This informed her instinctive style of painting as she independently developed her own method and approach. She has gained recognition in both public and private galleries, in the UK, Italy, Germany and has received a number of awards both, for individual artist development, and as a curator.

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