Joanne Healey

Art is usually the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing before I go to bed at night. When I close my eyes I see colors and textures and my body becomes fluid inside. Twelve years ago, a masterful retired artist for NBC,inspired me to create art while I was managing a prolonged illness. He helped me to reconnect to my passion, and Mixed Media gave me the freedom from constraint that I desperately needed. Art and creativity touch the very soul of me and are vital to my existence. I can work endlessly, not conscious of time, losing myself to some knowing inside of me that drives my hands to move, to experience and to create.

My work expresses what is internal to me, and I never initiate a piece with a specific idea, color or shape. It evolves as I experience and allow myself to let go and to give expression to what is held deep inside of me. The colors, in particular, seem to nourish my spirit, and flow through me. Sometimes I get so engrossed in the colors I cannot seem to get them into form. I feel like swimming in them, breathing them in, or somehow being color itself. It is at these times, I am most prone to using my hands with paint. I build my work with layer upon layer of paper, paint, pastels, gesso,...

Degrees in Biology and Chemistry and Masters in Counseling.