Janet Nelson has been driven from a very young age to create. Growing up in the Bay area of California, Janet was inspired in her youth by the "hippie" art of the sixties and developed a fascination with art that was created with found objects; such as the sculptures on the Emeryville mud flats. Her work has constantly evolved. She is known for spare and etheral sculptures rendered in wire, as well as amazingly detailed Native American clothing created in resin. Janet enjoys work that creates an intense visual bombardment, driven by intuition and impulse, without boundaries or restrictions. She has created a unique method of making artifacts using contemporary materials: painted mixed polymers and paper laminated with wood glue. These materials are then distressed to give the weathered look of time.