Janet Q. Treloar

Janet Q. Treloar is long-time friend of mine. She is a leading British watercolourist whose work is widely collected in the UK, Europe and around the world. Janet was born in Cornwall and spent a year at Penzance School of Art before going to Cambridge to read Geography at Somerville College. Thos was followed by marriage, children and 20 years traveling the world I the oil business. It was during this time living in South America that she returned to her art; Janet spent three years studying at he David Manzur Atelier in Colombia.

Janet then moved to Stavanger, Norway where I first met her. Her career took off with exhibitions in the state-run Kunstforegning in Stavanger, Bergen and Sandnes. I acquired more then half a dozen of her works at that time and several others later when she was painting back in the UK.

Her career really soared. Janet had paintings accepted into the RA Summer Show, the RWS Open, the NEAC Open, the Royal west of England Academy, and the Laing and the Saunders Competitions. Over the succeeding years Janet has established an impressive record of solo and group shows in London, Edinburgh, Bath, and Penzance-and was the prizewinner at the RWS Open in 2004. in 2005 Janet was elected Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society.

Over the past 10 years Janet worked on two significant bodies of work-"The Romanesque Arch: a Visual language for Europe" and "Russia's Hero Cities"-both of which have met with great critical acclaim. More recently she has worked on a series of hauntingly peaceful watercolour landscapes of her beloved old Cornwall, together with images of modern-day Cornwall's bustling tourist hotels and bar kitchens. Most recently she traveled to south Asia with the RWS and the India Art Trust, creating colourful figurative and architectural works.

I visited Janet again earlier in 2007 and was able to see many of her newer paintings-and acquire a couple of limited edition prints. Janet and her husband, the sculptor John Hale-White, split their time between Cornwall and London.

After many years of envy and marvel over her talents, she now inspires rather than intimidates me in my own pursuit of painting watercolours.

Geo.Eynon 2007
Compiled from gallery notes for Janet Q. Treloar's various exhibitions