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My Background
My Inspiration
My Background
I’ve always worked from both sides of my brain the art side and the practical side the side that fixes things the side that function prevails and then the other side that makes things prettier Some sense of balance of color of texture and shape.
I grew up With a mom that had a great sense of style a great sense of color adventure in her a
I’ve always worked from both sides of my brain the art side and the practical side the side that fixes things the side that function prevails and then the other side that makes things prettier Some sense of balance of color of texture and shape.
I grew up With a mom that had a great sense of style a great sense of color adventure in her art even if she was controlled by the forces around her to do the practical stuff first. She knew art was important it was important for expression for full living.
We didn’t have dolls to play with but we had an art room filled with paint sets with hundreds of colors in them glue scissors string lace paint easels materials of all sizes and shapes and colors and textures.
We were soon On our own and Living as cheaply as possible meant some pretty ugly surroundings. Necessity being the mother of invention Got is going at an early age. There is free furniture on the side of the road to pick up and repair and paint and make beautiful making little pillows to go over things that weren’t perfect painting walls creating a world where we got to see what was beautiful.
Going to my grandmothers in the summers from the city was always fun mushroom picking hiking swimming fishing and doing creative things with your hands she taught us how to embroider knit and crochet. We would spend summer days sweeping out the tool shed and making it into our own fabulous clubhouse. We were given lots of costume jewelry from the woman that she worked from and from people in the neighborhood and we made beaded curtains we saved up green stamps and bought plastic chairs and tables and we would do our artwork. And keep working on our shed renovation. We eventually moved in with her. I started making my own clothes. There were no clothing stores like I was used to in the city and the ones that were there were either expensive or rather cheap.
I’m embarrassed to say that my taste came from Veronica’s closet. I’m talking about Archie comic books. Cute short Jean jackets and matching shorts I guess hot pants! I remember doing a lime green slinky halter top it was I would It caused a stir. My art was chosen for the window painting they used to do downtown great Barrington for halloween! Very exciting!
We ended up moving to Aston magna which was the Summerholme of a baroque music foundation. The landlord impressed with what we could do with paint and carpet in our sense of style asked us if we would be interested in helping him ran out certain outbuildings and do repairs and upgrades. I think I was 16 at that point I remember going to University of Connecticut had a summer class in color theory I believe I was 14? I just remember always being happy to learn about materials and theory but not as interested in art history. I always wanted my art to be my art to not have it be someone else’s that got stuck somewhere in my mind.
So I always did art but I have to say never wanted to be called an artist one because artists were usually poor and I didn’t want that.
Dreaming and redecorating and looking at peoples homes and using the resources that we had to make things look the best many times rearranging and rearranging and rearranging till we got it just right.
The man who owned the Mahaiwer theater in town AL Schwartz became the property manager at Aston manga and we started working for al at the theatre as well, Making signs and posters for different things at the theater.
Illustrated a book my aunt wrote about a snowstorm on Mother’s Day. I h Are you illustrated another book from Harvey Polsken who did a series of phonics called funny phonics. And another childrens book called the rocking horse winner.
I did a record label for white cat productions , My sister and I would do craft fairs around Christmas and it was always so frustrating we would not make a lot of money but people would tell us how great it was. We would always say we wanted to open a store. We did some main st craft fairs in west Stockbridge. Sold 1 off greeting cards and framed art.
I did some courses in the evening at simons rock.
NYC…
Back to the berkshires
Did some shows in Pittsfield museum, and private exhibits.
At bbc i took a mixuture of art and engineering drafting courses , landed a job as the first female drafts PERSON for Lenox mold and machine. However I didnt accept the position . I
Mundys.
Started a change of art with sister , a screen printing company where we printed signs and t shirts, etc. for companies that were local and thru out the US . Including USA Today, Capezio Dance wear,
And local like Kripalu Center and Jacobs pillow we were involved in the design and production .
I also created art and logos for food companies, Simsons salsa, pasta prima, 10 shekel foods, Sloane’s, Tavern , Frookies,
Then we expanded and opened a clothing store in Lee, Mass, under the same name which features hand painted clothing , hand made accessories, which ran for 13 years and a second store in Stockbridge .
For a brief stint.
Then switched to real estate , my canvas became houses to restore and renovate. Then boats. Sailboats, houseboats , trawlers and a historic Naval Tug , catamaran , becoming a merchant Mariner, and restoring and updating boats
Over half a million square feet of experiences later , i am back to painting and more recently , sculpture. Joanne Thompson explored Art at an early age and continues to do so .She has illustrated childrens books, in marketing for food and record labels , and sold her fine art which includes oils on canvas, collage and intaglio prints through the decades. She Started a screen print studio and subsequent clothing retail stores in the B b erkshires featuring her hand painting clothing and household items. Joanne has Studied Art at UConn,Simon’s Rock at Bard College, The New School for Social Research And Berkshire Community College.
Real estate became her new canvas weaving her love of design with Building and Yacht restoration/renovation using Balance, Texture, Color, function and Form. She is recently enjoying sculpture in her studios in Florida and New Mexico. Recent pieces are The culmination of art/design and home/boat building materials being infused into current works exploring Fortified Fragility.
My Medium
My Inspiration
My Background
I use as many different substrates and materials to accomplish the feeling i want to project. Canvas and pigments, paper, glass, metals, fiberglass, wood, resins and stuff… i never want to limit myself. I’m always reaching
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
I enjoy hiking in my spare time and many of my pieces are directly influenced by these hikes in nature. I love recreating plants and wildlife in my work.