Jannette Keating is a Canadian-born sculptor who discovered her passion for sculpture in clay when she moved to Los Angeles in 2003. Her life-long passion for visual art has been a constant inspiration. She seriously began exploring fine art after her second daughter was born. Until then, Jannette worked as a French Immersion Elementary School teacher in Winnipeg Manitoba. Her creative expression during those years was found in the vibrant learning environments she created for her students. In Los Angeles, Jannette spent time making three- dimensional figurative art with clay and enthusiastic contemporaries at the Brentwood Art Centre. She has been fortunate to learn under the exceptional direction of Sherry Stevens. More recent classes at Laguna Gloria (Austin Museum of Art) and Austin Community College are bringing new inspiration to her work.
Jannette’s love of people and her appreciation of visual art has enhanced her insight into human emotion, and its expression through physical body language and form. She depicts this relationship with personal sensitivity.
Art Education includes art history studies at York University in Toronto and L.A. County Museum of Art as well as personal exploration of various art mediums including charcoal, pencil, watercolor, acrylic and oil paints. Workshops at Victoria Beach, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Brentwood Art Centre have been favorites. Training and touring at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has lead her to become an active docent sharing her love of the arts with young visitors to the museum. In Austin Jannette works as a volunteer docent, bringing school children to the Austin Museum of Art. Inspiration is being drawn from her pleasure of being at the museum. Her emerging work is now cast in bronze with limited editions.
