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Paintings

Over the years I've explored many themes and styles of painting. Many paintings fit into multiple categories.

Shown are a few of the categories, for a complete list, click on the menu button above.

Please explore them all and enjoy.

Joanne

Water

Churning, still, rippling, receding, rising. Too salty, too warm, too little, too much. We all need fresh water and yet… Photographs of people seeking refuge in lands across bodies of water, capsized boats, raging rivers breaching levies, and wetlands were sources of inspiration for my first water paintings. Now, living by the water in Maine, the ocean as a resource, an everchanging ecosystem and a complex contributor to the quality of our lives is an omnipresent component of my paintings. As I walk its shores, I become immersed in its reflections, depths, fog and light, and the sounds of the tides, churn, and wind upon its surface.

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Land

Ancient rocks, trees holding on to eroding shores, salted roots in rising seas, and wind shorn shrubs twisted and torn. Walking the land, on bluffs, woodland trails, and sea shores, delicate plants and hefty boulders equally capture my attention. Their relationships to each other mimic our own, inextricably bound, symbiotic, and ephemeral.

Flora

Often in winter when all is grey, color beckons. I turn to my memories, sketches and bouquets of flowers in the studio for releif. I find many human qualities and gestures in their forms, fragility, attachment, and thorns.

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Flora Fantastica

Is peace a fantasy? These surreal gardens, plots of land, hedges, and shores filled with brambles, withering and blooming petals, and thorns present my dystopian and hopeful views.

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