Jeanette Meehan was born in 1965 in Point La Haye, Newfoundland, growing up in the outport she was not exposed to any of the art world until she met Christopher Pratt in 1984. She began working as a studio assistant in his studio helping with print making, priming canvases, stretching watercolour paper, and eventually underpainting. Jeanette is represented in Canada by Summer and Grace Gallery in Oakville and provincially by the James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove. In Europe Jeanette is represented by the Signet Contemporary Art Gallery in the culturally rich neighbourhood of Chelsea & Kensington in London, England.