Biography
Janet Treby (British, b. 1955) is known for elegant, atmospheric figurative work that blends classical poise with a modern, luminous palette. Born in London and raised in a Bedfordshire village as the youngest of four, she knew by the age of eleven that she would be an artist. She trained at the West Surrey College of Art and Design and then at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art in London, and was early honored as a Lloyds Young Printmaker of the Year.
Figurative Light & Fine Serigraphs
Treby's serene subjects — poised dancers, bathers, and classical figures — are rendered in soft, golden light and have been exhibited internationally from Tokyo to New York to Moscow. She works both in original oils and in fine serigraphs and giclées, and the range is part of her appeal. A serigraph is a hand-pulled silkscreen print in which each color is laid down through a separate hand-cut screen — a painstaking, labor-intensive process that gives the finished work a rich, layered depth quite unlike a photographic reproduction.
Collecting Janet Treby
That span of media — unique oils at one end, signed serigraphs and giclées at the other — makes Treby's elegant, light-filled figures accessible to collectors at many levels, which is much of why her work has found such a wide international following.