Joy Wolfenden Brown Born in 1961 Stamford Lincolnshire. Living in Cornwall. Studied for her degree at Leeds University and completed a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design. She worked as an art therapist for ten years before moving to Bude in Cornwall in 1999. Wolfenden Brown has had a number of sell out shows and was the First Prize Winner in The National Open Art Competition, 2012. Joy paints in oils with an immediacy that almost defies the medium - her figures have an unselfconcious integrity that demans our attention, teasing out a response, an empathy. The seemingly anecdotal nature of her paintings, tiny slices of verisimilitude from the domestic arena - lying in bed, a hug, a walk holding hands - transpose equally well into metaphors and as such the theme of letting go is increasingly apparent. Joy Wolfenden Browns background is in Art Therapy (she worked for some time with disturbed teenagers in a mental health unit) and one senses that to bring this emotional veracity to her work she has drawn at a deep well. Her images, whether playful, pensive, lonely, or preoccupied go to the heart of the matter and take us with them.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:18:49 +0000