Joanne Healey

II've always been drawn to where art, healing, and the mysteries of being human meet. My path began in Biology and Counseling and opened into Art, Yoga, Qigong, Energy Medicine, Intuitive work, Health Coaching, guided by curiosity about body, mind and spirit and what we can feel, sense, and discover beyond what we can explain.
Teachers have compared my work to Gustav Klimt's, and while we share a love of symbolism, nature, and layered surfaces, my paintings come from within the experience of the Divine Feminine: creativity, wisdom, and transformation. She is also bound up with women's struggle for voice, dignity, and self-definition. Having watched women stand up to dismissal and inequality, I paint the strength of a woman claiming her own experience.
My process is layered and open-ended. I often begin without knowing where I'm headed, letting the work unfold through a conversation with paint, paper, found elements, texture, color, nature, and whatever stirs within me.
Nature and the elements keep drawing me toward the meeting place of outer world and inner life. One woman told me she kept my painting on her desk and, over time, left her job for the health field, feeling the painting was part of that transformation.
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Degrees in Biology and Chemistry and Masters in Counseling. Teacher of Yoga, Qigong, Art and Intuition, Health Coach.

Nelson, New Zealand
West Palm Beach, FL
Sarasota, FL
Raleigh, NC
San Francisco, CA