b'Growing up as a kid in New York, Central Park was everything to me. I played tennis in the park. I played baseball in the park. I almost had my two front teeth knocked out while playing football in the park. Living in a series of small apartments on the West Side not bordering on the park, I always felt that Central Park was still my front and back yard. Those precious times are something you just cant put a price on.One of the beauties of the park is that it truly is the peoples park. It welcomes everyone. Race, color, creed, and other so-called distinctions between people disappear. You go into the park on a Sunday and you could be at the United Nations. It is a rainbow. We have at least one of everything and maybe more. Thats the way it was and is exactly the way it ought to be. Those memories and the way the park is todayforever the peo-ples parkis why Janets paintings are so meaningful to me. They capture the essence and reality of that great variety of people, do-ing what they do naturally, amidst the absolute beauty of the park.Janets extraordinary panoramas of a lush green Sheep Meadow are so large that I feel I am part of the actual experience. These watercolors are close to a cinematic expressioncapturing the gamut of visitorsall nationalities, races, and ages, even collaged photographs of family members and park visitorsthat reveal Janets humanity and love of the democratic peoples park. She brings her wonderful sense of humor to her work, such as the transformation of a foreground flock of seagulls to a background flock of sunbathers. In another panorama, Janet celebrates the parks magic and enchantment by juxtaposing enormous, out-of-'