Janet Fountain spends most weekends painting ‘en pleine aire' in the Mt Isa area. She has been involved with Flying Arts since 1991 and was a former Flying Arts representative with Jill O'Sullivan. Janet studied science at university but she has always been a drawer. She attended a workshop with Mervyn Moriarty at Emu Park in 1996 and has attended sessions with most of the tutors that have come to Mt Isa. She is a dedicated painter who summed up her goals to Jill O'Sullivan in this way, " I just want to keep improving my art, I just want to get better and better, I would hope my work is good enough to survive 500 years. I want to do great art. I am prepared to take a lifetime to get there."