Janet Wootton

Janet Wootton is a communicator, both by profession and through her art. In 2007, she was one of the first students to graduate with a BA (Hons) in fine art from Nottingham University after six years of part time study.

My work has landscape origins and mainly explores the properties, surfaces, tensions and melting points of plastic-based materials and aluminium.

The finished work ranges from transparent images of a sensitive but highly colourful quality, to rugged relief paintings of a distinctive constructional and linear nature where horizon lines are significant.

Red, orange and black feature prominently in the work, which incorporates digital photography and printing, burning, painting and sculptural elements.

There is a recycling approach to much of my work through the reusing and re-working of plastic bags and aluminium sheet and wood and conversion into artworks via a process of change and evolution.

My graduation exhibition was called Surface Issues ad was at the Wallner Gallery, Lakeside, Nottingham in July 2007.

Janet is a former journalist and broadcasting regulator who now works as a visual arts and strategic communications consultant. She is also involved in the region's performing arts, singing and acting with several Nottingham companies.

Janet Wootton may be contacted via jane.wootton@ntlworld.com