My Creative World

My life is, and always has been, one filled with creativity. I relate to the lyric from the Sound of Music that says “my heart wants to sing every song it hears”. Perceiving meaning in the world around me I feel compelled to draw, savouring its richness as I do.

- Janelle Fisher

Though I’ve been drawing since I was a child, it’s only been recent that I’ve been able to invest myself in my art, as I’ve long hoped. As many self-taught artists find, mine has been a winding journey, driven by an undercurrent of passion, dedication, and hard work. It has been intermingled with other priorities, interests, and needs at different times, and only really developed when permitted. Encouraged to pursue a customary vocation, I’ve worked as a pediatric Occupational Therapist, assisted in Health Research and have a Masters in Tropical Environmental Management. This background has tendered my knowledge and experiences that have influenced the art and the artist I am now.

Darwin is my home and has been for most of my life. It is a beautiful place, unique and diverse in many ways. It also offers an abundance of encounters with nature. I enjoy curlew’s night calls, sunset beach walks, kapok blooms, black cockatoos chatting, Dry season fires, and in the wet season, electrical storms and torrential rain. I think my affinity with these encounters and experiences is deeply infused in me and my art. I cannot resist the allure of creation. It’s elegance, intricacy, and authenticity is captivating. I love the truthful witness that is the natural world and that the creations it inspires are invested with its beauty and wisdom.

I love sharing what I observe in nature with others. There is a satisfaction that arises from completing a work that is pleasing. This is made greater when others retreat into, and enjoy, the creation too.