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Joanne’s creativity began in childhood and was encouraged by her family. She first studied art at Western Tech. in Toronto and later, Mount Royal College and Alberta College of Art. She began teaching art and design in the 1970’s and continued over 30 years offering classes for all ages in watercolours, drawing and mixed media. Her art has been exhibited extensively in public galleries including the John B. Aird Gallery and the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto. Joanne has won numerous awards and been successful in acquiring grants. Joanne’s art is now in several private and corporate collections worldwide. In 2008, she relocated to Belleville, Ontario and continues to create art and exhibit her work through various venues. Joanne is a recent member of the Belleville Art Association and the Quinte Art Council. ARTIST’S STATEMENT I consider my work a journey within to capture the essence of my subject and portray a story to be told. My challenge in creating art is to go beyond the visual images and reach the core, to live out imagination and express the underlying psychological and spiritual condition of my relationship to my world. The creative act for me is to present an idea or inner vision and to express this through the use of a wide variety of things including artist's materials, man-made, found and natural objects, organic, mineral and metals. In this way I have an unlimited resource to develop the essence of my work as a powerful encounter between myself in the physical and the metaphysical vision in my mind. I am encouraged to go one step further to explore and develop thought through creative skills. It is my intention to encourage the viewer to connect to the image. Perhaps a new vision will be triggered that questions the explanation of visual form and moves to an emotional response to their world through mine. Something unique is born. |
In The Beginning
Idle Conversation,
sculpture, 4' x 3'
Bird of Mind, found art sculpture, 20" x 20"
Caged Forest, sculpture, 26" x 9"
