Janet Wilson is renowned for her ability to quickly capture the nuances of facial expressions with pencil, charcoal, or pastel. Equally praised are her fully rendered studio portraits in oils on fine French Belgian linen. The captured blur of Jazz legend Peter Appleyard in creative frenzy graces an album cover. Sketches of HIV/AIDS impacted people in South Africa were done literally in minutes yet convey all the pathos and hope of that human tragedy.