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Joan’s work concerns odyssey. Odyssey is rooted in human experience and has a degree of observation and intimacy.
Her childhood was spent in a North Atlantic Irish landscape of ancient rocks, wild sea and huge skies. Living now in central London, her work is about trying to make sense of these experiences and it deals with fragments of memory and the patina of time.
During Joan’s childhood mysterious trunks used to arrive from India, sent by various relatives. The excitement was immense, discovering colourful textiles, fine wood carvings, wonderfully detailed metal jewellery, brass pots and long necklaces of amber with trapped flies and cream beads of ivory. All this must surely have kindled her interest in the exotic and in detailed miniature art.
Her love of colour comes from her painting and her first
training as a printed and woven textile designer.
Although enamel has an in built fragility, it is, for Joan, the perfect medium
for creating a lasting image.
Public collections include: The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London, The Worshipful Company of Dyers, London and the Musee de l’horlogerie et Email, Geneva.
