FOREST OF TRANQUILITY.

Joan’s mixed media offering is constructed from timber panels and three dimensional leather leaves, mounted on canvas. These innovations bring new dimensions and greater excitement to these latest creations.

The paintings were inspired by Queensland’s tropical rainforests near Mackay where Joan recently spent some time in the Eungella National Park

The promise of enrichment and excitement almost miraculously springing from the decay within the rainforest; the burgeoning regeneration of new life, structure and meaning springing from the breakdown of life itself, touched a powerful spiritual chord in Joan. These factors have been expanded to form these vital new paintings.

Impressions of forest floor and flashes of brilliant colour interspersed with light filtering through shadows are used to remind us of our own inner journeys, the times of shadows, light and regeneration within our own lives.