As a new and emerging artist, Joanne's creativity has been develeped and renewed for years through many aspects- writing, drawing, even the art of makeup with a license in Cosmetology. Those outlets did not seem quite enough. She began painting as a protege of nationally acclaimed artist, Roger Sayre, and has gone on to study with other artists and workshops.

Having worked on rusted steel with Sayre, she now works independently in her studio with a variety of materials. Joanne loves using texture and creating illusions with acrylics. Always seeing beauty in colors, her vision is "abstract thru karmatik kolors' - feeling colors are guided thru karma as a whole mind, body, spirit experience. Absorbing moods and surroundings is what develops her abstract, non-objective art.