Janet Tjitayi is from Ernabella, an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjatjatjara/Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia. She is married to Sid Anderson, ‘boss’ of Five Mile outstation, and has lived there with her family since the late 1980s. Her mother, Angkuna is from Nyapari and her father, Kim is from Pukara in the APY lands. Janet paints tjupi or honey ant. She also paints a sacred site called Pilati, the resting place of the Wanampi (water serpent). Piltati is near her mother's country of Nyapari on the APY Lands in South Australia.