Janet Flynn is best known for her watercolor paintings of Sandhill and Whooping cranes. She has had numerous exhibitions of her work at The International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Through The International Crane Foundation and various conservation groups she uses her art to help protect the wild creatures of Wisconsin and their habitat. She also participates in The Fall Art Tour each October, having her studio/home open to the public the 3rd full weekend.

“Life experience and observation are my teachers and the connection between art and nature my passion. I have always sought out nature and looked upon her with a loving artist’s eye and understood that I was simply a part of life’s delicate tapestry. I have learned that the ache in my heart at the call of the crane on its southward migration, the loneliness of the winter landscape and unbounded joy at the stirrings of spring are a result of a knowledge that the unraveling of nature’s tapestry would in all certainty wash me away with all her lovely sounds, smells and wondrous sights. I simply wish to spend my earth journey wandering nature’s paths and communicate through imagery the treasures I have found.”
 

Exhibitions:

“Leopold Center Art Discovery Day”, Baraboo, WI; November, 2009.

“Birds In Art’ 1997, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI.

“Watercolor Wisconsin” 1997, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI.

“Wings Over the Platte” 1998, Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island, NE.

“International Exhibition on Animals in Art” 1998, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine,  Baton Rouge, LA.

“Northern National Juried Art Competition” 1998, Nicolet College LRC Gallery, Rhinelander, WI, Patron Award.

“Wildlife Art Show”(invitation), 1998, 2000-2003 Seippel Homestead & Center for the Arts, Beaver Dam, WI.

“Florida Wildlife & Western Art Exposition” (invitation) 1999, Orlando, Florida.

“Miniatures/99”, (invitation) The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, N.M.

“Transparent Watercolor Society of America Annual National Exhibition”, 2000, 2002, 2009. (signature member)

The International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, WI – 1999, 2003 and 2005.

UW Madison Arboretum Steinhauer Trust Gallery – 2005.

Publications:

Featured in:

“The Best of Wildlife Art 2”, published by North Light Books, 1999.

“Celebrating Door County’s Wild Places”, published by The Ridges Sanctuary, 2001.

“Seeding the Snow”, A Journal of Women’s Writing and Artwork That Celebrates the Midwestern Landscape, Fall-Winter, 2003 and 2004.

The Passenger Pigeon, Journal of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, Fall 2004, Winter 2004.