Joan Heart solo exhibition Meet the Artist

Name: Joan Heart solo exhibition Meet the Artist
Start: 2026-05-30T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-30T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 118 E. King St, York, PA

Schedule

Sat May 30 2026 at 12:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

118 E. King St, York, PA | York, PA

Light refreshments will be served. You are invited to enjoy her work and have a discussion with the artist. The show will open May 29th and conclude June 22nd.
Read Joan’s bio - I have loved animals and the outdoors since I was a small child. My love of painting came later, yet it flows directly from this earlier passion. I seek to capture the aliveness of the natural world through my strong use of color whatever the subject: landscape, animal or human portraiture.

I have recently moved from the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, to the mountains surrounding Frederick, Maryland. I miss the Shore with its unique landscapes and wildlife, but I am finding solace in the tree covered mountains and rolling farmland of Western Maryland. It’s a challenge to go from painting marshes to painting mountains. Another challenge I have taken on recently is painting abstracts and experimenting with acrylics on paper. Changes breed change. I love painting the local landscape and people and I also love to travel and continue to mine paintings from many of the places visited, especially Africa. My paintings have appeared in juried shows and in galleries in Washington DC, Baltimore, Severna Park, Easton, Chestertown, Oxford, Rockville and Frederick. I am very proud to have been juried into the Local Color Show during Plein Air Easton and the Oxford Fine Arts Annual Show.

Some of my most influential art heroes from the past are: the cave artists of ice age Europe, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Whistler, Sargent and Diebenkorn. Some of my favorite contemporary artists who have provided instruction, support and/or inspiration to me are: Nancy Tankersley, Walt Bartman, Mathew Hillier, Katie Cassidy and Andrew Stevovich. Is it possible that there are more artists working, creating, inspiring today than ever before? I think so. We live in rich and interesting times.

As I evolve as an artist, I am experimenting with pushing shape and color to a more abstract, elemental level while maintaining an emotional connection with my subject. What I love so much about making art is that it is always a journey, never a destination. I hope to take whoever views my art on the journey with me.