Janet Fredericks spent her early years in Vermont. She studied art at Green Mountain College, William Patterson College and received her BFA from Barry University. She has had major shows, both in this country and abroad, steadily creating bodies of work informed by her interest in and observations of her natural environment. A Vermont Arts Council and New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipient, she has received artist residencies at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, Venice Printmaking Studio and the International School of Art, Umbria.
This body of work expresses Fredericks’ continuing interest in water and the complexities of its language. Her paintings and drawings offer a visual insight into water, its relationship to what holds it and the life that infuses it. Mysterious and sensory, her drawings and paintings are at once maps, conversations and prayers linking the observer to a deeper communion, a reverent awareness of the history of water as a conduit and amplifier of intuition, a repository of ever changing but expanding memories and markings, that help contain and reveal the rituals and identities of the race.
