Janet Matthews

{{about|the Australian artist|the American historian and author|Janet Snyder Matthews|the Australian musician and recorder of Aboriginal culture|Janet Mathews}}

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| honorific_suffix = Dip and Grad Dip Vis Arts, WASF, AGRAF

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• Wildlife Artist of the Year (Australia): 2011, 2013, 2017
• Focus on Nature Jury Award: 2014

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Janet Matthews is an Australian artist, known for her works in pencil and crayon, depicting Australia's wildlife. She has been the Wildlife Art Society of Australia's "Wildlife Artist of the Year" on three occasions, in 2011, 2013, and 2017.{{cite web |title=Awards |url=http://www.wildlifeartsociety.com/awards/ |publisher=Wildlife Art Society of Australia |accessdate=20 September 2018}}

In April 2014, she won a Focus on Nature Jury Award at the New York State Museum.{{cite web |title=Apple of her art's eye |first1=Lachlan |last1=Moorhead |url=https://berwicknews.starcommunity.com.au/news/2014-06-19/apple-of-her-arts-eye/ |publisher=Berwick Star News |accessdate=20 September 2018 |date=19 June 2014}}

She created artwork for Australia Post, for their Australian Antarctic Territories series postage stamps (two×50c and two×$1.00), depicting fishes of the Australian Antarctic Territory, released on 1 August 2006,{{cite journal |title=Stamp Bulletin Australia |url=https://shop.auspost.com.au/INTERSHOP/static/WFS/AusPost-Shop-Site/-/AusPost-Shop/en_AU/assets/document/1269401742-bull284.pdf |issue=284 |page=6 |date=July–September 2006}} and of insects, for gutter decoration for 28 July 2009 "Micro Monsters" series.{{cite journal |title=Stamp Bulletin Australia |url=https://shop.auspost.com.au/INTERSHOP/static/WFS/AusPost-Shop-Site/-/AusPost-Shop/en_AU/assets/document/1245019908-bulletin299_low.pdf |issue=299 |page=13 |date=July–August 2009}}