Janet Keen

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Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Artist , teacher, writer
Location Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Introduction Full Time Mosaic and Mixed Media Artist/Teacher with open organic mosaic garden and gallery to view and be inspired.
Interests Travelling, walking, bird watching, reading, gardening, meditation, all forms of art, gallery, mixed media art, journaling viewing, photography, cooking, writing, poetry, short stories, haiku, newspaper articles, travel writing, eco tourism, organics, recycling, visual diary making, cats, kiwis, interior design, seafood, spirituality, journalism, freelance writing, self improvement, public speaking, vegetable growing, dreaming, being happy, Feminism
Favorite Movies Ground Hog Day, The Flight of Birds, Tootsie, All arthouse, especially French movies. Delicatessan
Favorite Music JJCale Baroche Sade Leonard Cohen, Madonna Segovia John Willianms Vivaldi Dido George Benson
Favorite Books The Artists Way Julia Cameron, How to Watch a Bird, Steve Braunias, Novel About My Wife, Emily Perkins, The Bone People, Keri Hulme, The 10pm Question, Kate De Goldi, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy, Charlottes Web, E.B. White, The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, The Four Gated City, Doris Lessing, The Collector, John Fowles, Matilda, Roald Dahl, The Witches, Roald Dahl, Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs, Saving Francesca, Melina Marchetta, The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, Life of Pi Yann Martel, Prodical Summer . Barbara Kingsolover, A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley, Near A Canal, Wheldon Curzon-Hobson