After taking a class on making metal flowers in 1972, Janice Clark began giving them as gifts while improving her own skills and technique. In 1980, she made her first sales at a museum benefit and after returning to her homestate of Texas in 1986, she began the production of her native wildflower collection. Her creations grace the boardroom of the National Wildflower Research Center in Austin as well as the offices of other public figures. Now the botanically accurate flowers, which she cuts out and assembles out of aluminum and hand paints, brighten the lives of the patrons who flock to her exhibitions at juried art shows and sales all over Texas.