Wilderness

Janet Botes

Using a variety of techniques, she aims to create intuitive nature-inspired art with a unique earthy and aesthetic quality.
My Disciplines
Illustration
Mixed Media
Painting
Photography
Installation
About The Creative

Janet Botes is an artist who works intuitively to express her appreciation for the sacredness, cycles, and biodiversity of the Earth in her art and workshops. Her work includes land art, installation art, drawings, paintings, mixed media, photography, digital art and assemblage – and often involves working as much outdoors as in the studio. Her conceptual focus primarily revolves around our place and connection within the web of life. Her first two solo exhibitions, Wild & Still: expressions of the landscape (2014) and ORGANISM (2016), were held at StateoftheArt Gallery in Cape Town. She’s been involved with projects and residencies that relate to art and the environment, including 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.

Creative output/s I am interested in producing:
Imagery for publications
Use scientific material to make something compelling/expand messaging
Work with traditional knowledge and practice for stories
Design for events
Open ended exploration/collaboration
Public art
Public festivals
Artwork in workshops to engage messaging
Use art methodologies to help co-design messages
Design for documents toward research outputs or policy
Help visualise strategic storytelling of scientists' work for policy
Exhibitions
Branches of science I'm interested in:
Oceanography
Astronomy
Geology
Structural Geology
Sociology
Psychology
Anatomy
Botany
Ecology
Microbiology
Neuroscience
Entomology
Archaeology
Geography
Anthropology

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