Janice Trimpe began in the 1970's as an oil painter and a potter before studying sculpture at Detroit's prestigious Center for Creative Studies. Beginning with a studio in Detroit, sculpting portrait busts in the window, Janice did over 200 portrait busts, including Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams and Mikhail Baryshnikov.Though trained as a classical sculptor, Janice often has challenged herself by entering new arenas, such as a contemporary line of art made of bonded marble and the production of life-like porcelain dolls