About Joanna

I am primarily an abstract and impressionist painter, but my creativity expands into other mediums in which I am always exploring and learning. I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree emphasizing painting from The University of Arkansas Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. My artistic approach is one that is connected to a deep exploration of color and depth created by texture. I am heavily influenced by music and the layering of instruments to create a song, I often view my paintings as a symphony of layers, color, depth, and pattern. Textile design and layering inspire my approach, as well as the senses that nature can evoke. I love to put words to a painting, there is a strong relationship between words and my work. I fully embrace the tensions in life as well as the beauty. I embrace imperfection and strive to lean into that, to process life and create art from that. My application of layering paint, scrapping, then layering again is a direct reflection of life, tension can sometimes be what is needed most to create something beautiful. I believe that there is something transcendent about art, there is something unexplainable at times, a means of communicating to our depths. Communicating something unexplainable but so true and we somehow just get what it is telling us personally. It is of value by uniquely and simply being itself. The process of creating a painting that started from nothing and evolves into its own individual self teaches me that of myself as well. I am always searching to become my truest self and the process of making art is one of my best teachers.

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