Janet Armijo was born in Ovalle, city of the north of Chile on October 29, 1958. Few years after that in 1965, her family moved to Santiago of Chile in order that she could study the basic and secondary education on that city. Together they built the family home, a very well-designed house with great resistance to earthquakes, where they lived for many years.
Her interest for the art and design began at young age. At that moment she wanted to study art, but the country had not developed this area and the resources neither allowed her to buy the necessary materials.
Between the years of 1976 and 1981, she studied commercial engineering at the University of Chile, and afterwards she worked in management control in different multinational companies.
In 1988, a spiritual seer told her that she would dedicate to art in the future and she thought that could be a signal to take up again her inspiration for the art.
In 1995, set up an innovative boutique that was one of the first in the country for women with large size, this allowed her to develop her liking for fashion design and helped fat persons to find more variety in clothes.
In 1998, studied painting in the Catholic University of Chile and since this date she is dedicated to paint pictures.
In the years after 2000, besides her artwork in the paintings she worked as real estate broker and she has remodeled the apartments where she has lived. Nowadays she lives in Santiago of Chile.
Interests: nature care, environment and climate change.
Believes: the good education and use of talents for eradicate the poverty, built since the own positive energy a better world.
Themes: In her work stand out the themes about nature, sea, river and the sky.
Teachers: Igor Sajarov, Alicia Gomar, César Córdova and Angel Montero.
Admiration for: Pierre Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Miguel Angel Buonarotti, Leonardo Da Vinci, Rafael Sanzio, Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt y Mary Cassatt. Chilean painters: Pedro Lira, Francisco González, Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma and Celia Castro.
Her family has been fundamental support and source of inspiration for her work.