Janet Christie studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art from 1957 to 1961. After bringing up her family, she moved to Peebles and began to exhibit her paintings. During the 1980s, Janet exhibited widely in East Anglia and London, including at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.

Janet’s botanical paintings have brought her acclaim. And, although she is perhaps best known as a painter of botanical subjects, her repertoire is wide. But all of her work is characterised by the attention to detail required of a painter of botanical subjects. Gardens, parks, paths through trees will form the backdrop to the work which Janet will exhibit at Broughton Gallery in 2007 ^ landscapes peopled by rather fantastic, stylised horses and human subjects.