Janette Lockett

Biography

Janette Lockett was born in South Yorkshire in 1963. Her passion for horses developed as a young child. When Janette moved to Andalusia, Spain in 1987, she found the perfect setting and inspiration for her creative talent, and soon became established as a leading equestrian artist in Málaga, and on the Costa del Sol.
Janette creates beautiful and majestic, yet sensitive horse paintings. She has held a number of solo exhibitions of her equestrian artwork, and participated in several group exhibitions in Spain, the UK and Switzerland. Janette’s paintings have been bought and shipped to many different parts of the world, and can also be found in the private collections of leading art collectors and royalty.
ART REVIEW
“The Dream of Freedom” by Art Critic & Journalist, Branka Berberijan
“Since time immemorial (remember the Altamira cave paintings) artists have always felt a vigorous fascination with the horse, a prototype that is so highly respected in the world of mythology, to which several civilizations have attributed supernatural gifts and symbolic values. For Janette, this beautiful animal is the idyllic and utopic dream of freedom, unobtainable in the real world, yet which is expressed by the artist through her unique method of painting. She paints the outline of her subject matter as if it were a true reproduction of the horse; softens the sharpness of the images with pastels treated with water, which, in turn, reduces the object of her inspiration into the idea itself, in a purely platonic way. Moreover, the plain white background allows the horse to stand out in all its splendour. Its magical beauty is also portrayed by concentrating on just one principal colour, from which the artist derives, with exceptional sensitivity, a whole spiral of different hues and shades giving the work, not only an aesthetic purity, but also a poetic feeling, converting it into an artistic study about the relationship between realism and idealism. The author captures with great ease the agility and elegance of her subject matter in movement, whether it be a horse rearing or a herd galloping, with their manes and tails flying freely through the air, giving the painting a dynamic vitality that brings the horses to life. However, the greatest artistic care may be seen in the depth and beauty of the animal’s eyes: it seems as if, when you look at them closely, there is a search for that enigmatic point around which radiates the essence of the horse’s beauty. Janette’s art is an expression of her inner world of fantasy and dreams, filled with artistic strength that gives shape to her ideas and thoughts. At the same time, her unique artistic expression is a formidable contribution to the place of privilege that the horse holds in the history of art.”

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