Janet


About Janet

Janet is the artist and creator behind the Self-Love Oracle. Painting and drawing since childhood and holding a B.A. in Journalism, she's worked in historical tourism, education, and publishing; and just completed her Master of Counseling. After her experiences with motherhood, divorce, new age and the supernatural, she believes in healing through self-exploration and creative expression.

It’s been like an extended drug trip, or time in our own padded cell. Lockdown forced us inside. […]

Lessons in Lockdown



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In collectivist and conservative cultures, individuation might as well be called “selfish, selfish selfishness that will lead to […]

Conformity is not Cohesion




Unicorn, lady, dream catcher

Watercolours, markers, colour pencil 11 x 16 inches November 2019 Commissioned as cover art for a New Age […]

Dream Catcher


Watercolours, ink, color pencils, markers 11 by 16 inches November 2019 In late 2019, there were a few […]

Ties That Bind


Many of these are in the Self-Love Oracle. More recent, with marbling and mixed media: Older: My channeling […]

The Angel Gallery




Received during the New Virgo Moon, 2019: All relationships provide opportunities for healing. We heal ourselves by creating […]

A Meditation on Relationships


Preface I haven’t found, online, many women (or mothers) writing on their Ayahuasca experiences. Here’s mine. It will […]

Mothers, Monsters and Music


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More than one conversation that I had in the past week was about wearing masks. For some of […]

The Masks We Wear


Mixed media on paper, 10 x 15 inchesWatercolours, markers, pencils, gold pigmentJanuary 2019 Black Moon Lilith is a […]

Lilith




A painting about how creative people (writers and artists) often work blind, sometimes not knowing how the final […]

The Channel


Guan Yin and Green Tara are in the Self-Love Oracle, as is Psyche (and Eros).

Goddesses


Daughter happened by what feels like divine accident: In the same week of her 9th birthday, my daughter […]

Daughter



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Watercolours and Mixed Media 11 by 14 inches September 2018 This is one of the first pieces […]

Sacred Geometry


Watercolours, markers and colour pencils on 100% hotpressed cotton, 9 by 12 inches. Reversible composition. (I’ve hung this […]

Gemini


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Where to start? These few months have been strange. Astrological advice in mind, I had kept July and […]

Untangling Old Knots





Older and smaller paintings below.

Mermaids


Touched up one of my older and smaller paintings. The Moira were also known as the Fates. Watercolours, […]

The Moira


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Watercolours on Hotpress 12 by 9 inches December 2017 A quick small painting to capture the magic of […]

The Fairy Tree