Joan is a native Vermonter with a lifelong appreciation for small town community life and the natural settings that come with living in New England. She divides her creative time between Maine and Vermont, and her love and appreciation of these settings is depicted in her watercolor scenes. Along with scenes of rural life, her works include flowers and still life. Joan also finds time to teach private lessons at her lovely home on Fern Lake in Leicester, Vermont as well as paint on commission.
Joan studied oil painting in Tacoma, Washington; worked in layout and design for a printing company in Rutland, and was a successful free-lance graphic artist. She has studied watercolor with Tony Couch, Skip Lawrence, Tom Lynch, Peter Huntoon, & Robert J. O'Brien, Jeannie Podolak, and life drawing with Fred Lower.
Joan exhibits at The Chaffee Art Center & The Night Owl/Moonbrook Gallery in Rutland, Vermont and The Brandon Artist's Guild in Brandon, VT. She is an exhibiting member of the Vermont Watercolor Society.
Joan was one of 40 artists who painted a pig in Brandon's 2003 "Really Really Pig Show", and has painted a bird feeder this year for "Brandon is for the Birds".
P.O. Box 167
Forest Dale, Vermont 05745
802-247-3407
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