Joanne was born in Surrey and has lived in and around London all her life. She originally trained as a classical pianist, but coming from a family of artists has followed both disciplines throughout her career. Working intuitively and experimentally – Joanne’s work takes on many forms – abstract, urban, coastal and landscape. The driving force of her work is all in the process – she works fast and freely – layering paint, building texture, finding colour surprises, and creating a rich surface from many iterations to arrive at a place of completion.
‘I always start from a blank canvas in my head, as well as physically on the easel. I don’t plan ahead as to what the finished piece might look like. I have to step off the creative edge in order to fall into something that engages me. My best work always comes from a place of risk and experimentation. It’s a dance between fast, intuitive, and often very physical painting and then just looking, so I can analyse what I have done and make some decisions about the next move. The ‘not knowing’ can mean many changes and overpainting and frequent frustration – but equally something magical and unexpected can appear quite suddenly and without warning’.
Currently exhibits with The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
Claremont Gallery, Sevenoaks.
Solo shows at Thirteen Langton Street (Bernard Chauchet) – 2005 and 2008.
Exhibited extensively at the Mall Galleries, London with The Pastel Society,The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours,
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and The Society of Women Artists.
Awards:
- 2015 – The Buzzacott Award for Almost there and The Derwent Pastel Award for Summer Walk - both at the Look Again Pastel exhibition, Mall Galleries
- 2012 - John Longley Prize for Isleworth Ait in the Love Pastel exhibition, Mall Galleries.
Notable commissions and achievements:
- Several original paintings chosen for two Moroccan Royal Palaces.
- Artwork used for prints and original commissioned pieces for many hotels including Sandy Lane Hotel, Barbados; Churchill Hotel, London and the Carlton Tower Hotel, Knightsbridge.
- Tuscan Landscape, published by the Art Group, which sold over 40,000 copies worldwide at IKEA.The first artist to be promoted by Ryan Air with a Winter Landscape watercolour printed on their airline tray tables.
Articles:
- The Luxurious Magazine – 2013
- The Acrylic Artist - 2015
- The Pastel Journal - 2015
- Practique des Arts - 2016
