After graduating in 1990 from the University of Ulster in Belfast with BA(Hons), Janice formed her business at her home in Moira, Co. Down.

Janice enjoys creating naturalistic images of the world around us, either through landscape or portraiture. Each piece is characterised by radiant luminosity combined with a deep richness of colour or tone and intense observation.  Her main mediums are oil and graphite; she uses these to portray her meticulous approach to detail that is a hallmark of Janice’s work.

A reverence is given to everyday subject matter and the people she comes in contact with who inspire her visually. Then Janice renders these portrayals with extraordinary accuracy, offering an intense appreciation and a unique way of presenting these ordinary images, often evoking the emotions associated with nostalgia, depression, shock, despair and pain.  She develops a very deep connection with each piece. This is evident as she allows them to mature organically and change direction if required, as she starts with very few marks or guidance on the surfaces and pushes the concept of standard composition.  All these techniques have been developed and used by her to help manage and control extreme pain, as she allows the complexities of the pieces to consume her.

However, Janice can detach from the emotions of suffering by only allowing them to impact her work and not her positive outlook and personality.  She only uses one small brush per painting and attaches that brush to the back when completed.  Sometimes the final cleaning of the brush removes the last hair and only a shaft is left to be attached.

As well as working on her own compositions, she also accepts commissions and provides tuition.

Janice has won numerous awards and exhibited and sold her work in local and international galleries including the RDS and RHA in Dublin also Mall Galleries in London and her work is included as part of the Ulster Television Collection.

Since becoming a member of the Ulster Society of Women Artists in 2007, Janice has won the Mary Dugdale Cup for Portraiture four times, the Max MacCabe Trophy (Visitors Choice Award) eight times, Winsor and Newton Award three times, Founders Award five times and was awarded her Diploma from the society.  Janice was selected as a member for the Arts Society of Ulster and later achieved her letters, ASU.  She has also won the H. R. Brown Art Award.  Her work has been selected for the Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibitions and the Royal Hibernian Academy, winning the De Veres Art Award for a Work of Distinction.  Janice also had the greatest pleasure of being awarded a residency at the world-famous Artists’ Retreat, Cill Rialaig.

To quote Janice, “I do what I love and love what I do”.