Moule, Janet

I lived throughout Germany during my youth and returned to Suffolk, England in my teenage years. My love for art started at a very young age with the desire to draw and paint horses and wildlife. For the past thirty or so years, I have lived in a beamed cottage in the County of Norfolk, surrounded by my husband, growing family, and a clever Cocker Spaniel called Tilly.

From being a professional musician on stage, in groups and bands, and an instrumental teacher in schools and colleges, my life took on a drastic transformation in 2013 when I fell ill with a rare neurological disease. This paralysed me from the waist down for seven months and left me wheelchair-bound for life, but I will not let it define me.

Once I had a semblance of control over my illness, art became a form of escaping the restrictions and chronic pain I suffered each day. However, I soon came to feel that there was something missing in my artwork. I needed to be different, to be free of the normal. That is when I joined the Milan Mastery Program, where I learnt to bring out my own voice and style. My art reflects my deep connection to nature and my passion for personal transformation, allowing myself to travel within my imagination to places I would never see otherwise.

There is a quote by Henry Ward Beecher saying, “Every Artist dips their brush in their own soul and paints their own nature into their pictures,” and I truly believe that within each of my paintings they carry a personal triumph and transformation of my life within them.

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