Joanna Blair

Joanna Blair is an artist of extraordinary versatility with a profound sensitivity and skill for capturing a moment of time; its atmosphere, energy, movement, mood and more, through a masterly range of techniques and use of colour. 
 
A self-confessed maverick and a frustrated child prodigy, Australian born Joanna has a life-long love of painting. Aged 13 she secretly (even unbeknown to her parents) submitted her work to a local art college and was accepted; that was until she was found to be underage. 
 
“Eschewing formal art courses or university I tried being mentored in turn by two private tutors, but after the initial flurry of excited discovery I grew frustrated at not being able to freely develop my own style, being restricted on subject matter and having to conform to someone else’s ideas. Once I decided to let my heart take over and rely solely on my own talent, it seemed to unleash a huge creative force which takes me in any number of directions!
 
"The one defining thread through all of my work is to simply paint that which I find beautiful"…be it a fish jumping back into the water leaving a trail of reflected colour through his wake, or a beautiful woman reclining on an opulent lounge in an haute couture gown – I am constantly brimming with ideas and how to render them in different ways that breathes life into the finished painting.”
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