Janet Schulz is originally from New Jersey, where she studied and completed a degree in Fine Arts Education. She worked in the commercial art field for many years as a graphic artist and designer, using various mediums in creating her paintings, including oils, pen and ink, acrylics and watercolor. Her work has appeared in national magazines and she has created the illustrations for two published children's books. Most recently, her watercolors were featured in Ferenc Mate's "The World's Best Sailboats II"

In 1980, she studied portrait painting in oils under Marion Hale Nelson and subsequently received commissions to paint portraits of adults and children. However, her real love has always been watercolor, which she returned to in 1990. She still enjoys working in oils and other mediums, but loves the fluidity and sensitivity of watercolor and works in watercolor almost exlusively today.