Janet Botes (1984-) is an artist who works intuitively to express her experience of life, and her connection to Mother Earth in her art and workshops. Her work includes Land Art, Installation Art, Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, Photography, Digital Art and Assemblage – and often involves her working just as much in the outdoors as in the studio. In her work she aims to honor the sacredness, cycles and biodiversity of the Earth.

Her first two solo exhibitions – Wild & Still: expressions of the landscape (2014) & ORGANISM (2016) hosted by StateoftheArt Gallery, Cape Town, were inspired by the landscape and species, and in April 2023 she showed a new body of work in an exhibition and outdoor event in Wilderness entitled “The Stones Speak, The Moss Whispers”.

Janet has been involved with projects and residencies that relate to art and the environment since 2009, by organizations that include Site_Specific, the Karoo Geoglyph Project, the Global Nomadic Art Project, Tankwa Artscape residency, Thupelo, and OPENLab. Her art is included in several corporate and private art collections.

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