Joanna was born in Sussex, and now paints from her countryside studio in Essex. Her early work explored a variety of genres, techniques and subjects, allowing her to enjoy freedom and unencumbered expression.

Through an evolving engagement with abstraction, her practice has flourished, allowing her work to move instinctively beyond representation. Her paintings give form to inner states translating feeling into shape, colour, and rhythm and the process has become deeply cathartic. She builds textured, layered surfaces using palette knives and brushes, with a strong pull toward earthy, grounding base tones.

Joanna is drawn to the endless loop of interpretation her work invites, as viewers respond in ways that often move beyond the physical and into the emotional or intuitive. This open exchange, where meaning is felt rather than fixed, is where her work feels most alive - and most true to her.