Creative and curious since a young child, Janese has spent the majority of her life traveling the world and creating art. Drawing, painting, art history and foreign language preceded her passion for jewelry design.

Having both studied and taught in Paris and Milan, Janese found the architecture, art, fashion, cuisine and music of the two cultures both captivating and inspirational.

While skiing in Colorado in 1997, she discovered a beautiful and compelling stone which begged her to create into a necklace. Enjoying the process more than the end result led her to experiment with a plethora of stones, metals and crystals, resulting in new and innovative creations of adornment.

Like the Arctic Fox, her totem animal, which changes color and adapts to seasonal and environmental shifts, Janese's designs continually evolve in response to contemporary aesthetic desires as well as to her internal artisic vision.

Janese currently resides in Lake Tahoe, where she enjoys the snow as much as the sun.