ABOUT ME

Joanne is multidisciplinary artist, working in painting, drawing and photography. 

Her artwork is mainly figurative, and drawing is the foundation of her practice. Joanne loves to draw, especially life drawing, with the practice and challenge of drawing the figure. Her life drawings often become studies, inspiring new works and explorations in other media. 

In Joanne’s series of Swimmer paintings, the figure and her love of water intersect. She’s fascinated with the body in water – suspended, moving, reflected, fragmented by distortions – and in capturing water itself, with its range of colours and depths, the nature of its surface and light passing through, and the sensory experience of swimming and being in water. 

 Her interest in photography is primarily film photography, with expired and experimental films, double exposures, and creative analogue processes, like polaroid lifts. Expired and experimental films have influenced a shift in her painting colour palette to less realistic tones and a more playful and creative approach to colour. 

Joanne studied Studio Arts at Capilano College (now University), has exhibited in a number of Group Exhibitions and Art Events, is the recipient of a FANS Grant for Artistic Production, and volunteers as co-producer of the C41 Coffee Film Photo Contest, a locally exhibited monthly contest that’s open Internationally.  

CURRICULUM VITAE

GROUP EXHIBITIONS & ART EVENTS

Harmony Arts Festival 2023
Group Exhibition, West Vancouver

North Shore Art Crawl, 2023 (participated since 2019)
Welch Street Studios, North Vancouver

West Vancouver Utility Box Art Wrap Program 2019 – 2018
Photograph selected, Juried submission, District of West Vancouver

Hot One Inch Action, 2018
One-night juried show of Button Art, Vancouver

Venus Rising: Drawings and Paintings, 2018
Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver

Simply Drawing Annual Show, 2017 (participated since 2015)
Simply Drawing Life Drawing

FANS Grant Recipient for Artistic Production 2016
Awarded by Funds for the Arts on the North Shore

Harmony + Discord: Group Exhibition, 2015
Harmony Arts Festival juried group outdoor show

Whistler ArtWalk, 2015
Whistler Arts Council juried summer event

From Here to There, a Progression in Art, 2015
Whistler Arts Council juried group show

A Touch of Paris, 2011
Open House at 195 Pemberton Studios, North Vancouver

Anonymous Show, 2010
North Vancouver Arts Council’s lightly juried annual fundraiser

Moss Street Paint-In, 2008
Art Gallery of Victoria’s juried annual outdoor event

Hot One Inch Action, 2008
One-night juried show of Button Art, Vancouver

Pintura, 2003
OpenAir Gallery & Studio, Vancouver

Pintura, 2003
Artist in Residence, Vancouver

Fire Hall Theatre, 2000
Fire Hall, Vancouver

Grad Show, 1994
Capilano College, Vancouver

AWARDS

West Vancouver Utility Box Art Wrap Program 2018–2019
Photograph selected, juried submission, District of West Vancouver

International Photography Award (IPA) 2023 – Official Selection and awarded Honorable Mention
Professional: Analog / Film-Portrait Category: “Accidental Tourist 04”

FANS Grant Recipient for Artistic Production 2016
Awarded by the Funds for the Arts on the North Shore

PUBLICATIONS

PhotoED Magazine, Winter 2024: The LAND Issue
Photograph Feature (Print + Digital Issue)

Pique Newsmagazine, May, 2005
Cover illustration

The Lyre, Volume 10, 1994, Capilano College’s journal of contemporary literature and arts
Figure Drawings Featured

ANALOGUE PHOTOGRAPHY ZINES

Plastic Perspective, A Holga Zine
Issue 3, Fall 2022
Issue 4, Spring 2023
Issue 5, Fall 2023

Latente FanZine
1st Edition, February 2023
3rd Edition, January 2024

SELF PUBLISHED

100 Days of Ocean
100 Day Art Challenge in book form, available on Blurb

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Cristina de Middel: Stranger than Reality, Magnum online course

Seeing Through Photographs, MoMA online certificate course

Painting the Figure & Portrait, with Justin Ogilvie, Whistler Art on the Lake Workshop 

Expressive Acrylics, with Suzanne Norscott, Whistler Art on the Lake Workshop

Drawing, Mixed Media Painting Techniques & Textile Printing, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver

Basic Photography, Langara College, Vancouver

EDUCATION

Studio Art Diploma, 1994, Capilano College, Vancouver

1st Year Foundation & Textile Design, 1991, Ruth Prowse Art School, Cape Town, South Africa

Graduated High School, 1989, Fish Hoek Senior High, Cape Town
(Art subject through all schooling & 2nd art subject off-site 1988-89, Textile Design, Frank Joubert Art Centre)