Janet Mayled is a mixed media artist based in Manchester. Janet has a Post Graduate Certificate in Education and has been a lecturer in Art and Design in a North West Further Education college.
Her practice is rooted in close observation of everyday life, encompassing landscapes, still life and urban scenes. More recently, her work has turned towards the human figure, capturing people immersed in the rhythms and quiet moments of daily life.
Across these varied subjects, she seeks to create compelling compositions that draw the viewer into the painting. Forms and objects are distilled into patterns, with line, colour and shape carefully orchestrated to establish visual movement and lead the eye through the composition.
Working with a layered combination of media, including acrylic, collage and oil, she builds depth, texture and complexity within each work. This considered approach to material and surface lends her paintings a distinctive richness, bringing together a strong sense of composition with an exploratory and tactile quality.