Janet Treby

(b. 1955)

Janet Treby is a British painter and printmaker born in Bedfordshire in 1955. Encouraged from an early age to pursue art, she studied Fine Art Printmaking at West Surrey College of Art and Design before undertaking postgraduate study in printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art. During the 1980s and 1990s Treby became associated with the London Contemporary Art group in Chelsea, gaining international recognition for paintings and prints depicting ethereal and symbolic figures. Her work was exhibited internationally, including in Tokyo, Moscow, and London, and she received a number of awards during this period. Alongside her studio practice, Treby taught and lectured at several institutions including West Surrey College of Art and Design, the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, and Barnfield College in Luton. Later moving to Cornwall and subsequently Norfolk, Treby increasingly turned towards landscape and the natural world as subjects for her work.