Beyond the Islands Painting

Joanna Dehn Beresford is an author and artist who works primarily with acrylics, charcoal, and pastels on canvas, wood, and paper. After earning a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from Indiana University she made art, formed a rock band, wrote for newspapers and magazines, taught in the United States, Asia and Latin America, and raised two extraordinary children. She is currently catching her breath in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her painting style is impressionistic, eclectic, and evolving. Her subjects are women, men, children, flowers, trees, oceans, skies, buildings, cities, deserts and other magical places.Her intention is to respond to the beauty she finds around her every day.