Janet Marshall

 

 

Janet Marshall - Professional Summary:    Artist/author specialising in bird and botanical and portrait  paintings.   Born Janet Elizabeth Blackwell in Essex, England in 1947.  Emmigrated with parents Lily and George Blackwell to New Zealand in 1958, sailing on the Rangitoto.   Married to Graham Marshall in 1968.  Was the genisis of Te Popo Gardens in Taranaki, NZ, a bird sanctuary and arboretum.  Two children, Daniel (1977) and Emma (1980), and one grandchild Pixiefaye Marshall-Broughton (2001).   Divorced in 1985.

 

 Began painting NZ birds in 1970, producing the illustrations for a set of 3  field guides to NZ birds (Mobil Field Guides 1970-71-72).   Produced the paintings for a 12 stamps on NZ endangered birds in the 1980s and a series of limited and unlimited edition prints of NZ and Australian birds during the 1970s and 80s.   Wrote and illustrated 5 children's books, Bellbirds Birthday Party, The Nesting Hole, Cuckoo's Egg, Mystery in the Swamp, K is for Kiwi, an illustrated nature ABC on NZ fauna and flora. 

Produced paintings for 2 x  NZ Game Bird Habitat stamps.

In 2005 built and published online KIDS FOR BIRDS, an interactive website for children on birds.   

Latest book is a fantasy novel called Taniwha, written under the name of Liza Fox, published as an ebook in 2011.

Currently lives on Takaka Hill at the top of the South Island of New Zealand.

 

 

Janet Marshall - Education:  New Plymouth Girls High School. 

 

 

Janet Marshall - Interests:   Birds, plants, painting, poetry, walking, crafts.

 

 

  

  

  

 

 

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Janet Marshall's Art Gallery
Website containing paintings of birds and plants, sculptures, cold cast bird figurines and home to Kids for Birds.

Kids for Birds
Interactive website for children on birds. Containing information and paintings on NZ birds, art gallerie, story page and links to other sites of interest.