Biography

Joanna Powell is an artist specializing in paintings of folk musicians, living and working at Sunderland Point, Lancashire. She studied Fine Art at the Storey Institute, Lancaster before moving to Scotland where she became immersed in the rich musical culture, both as a musician and an artist. Her oils capture the love every musician feels towards their instrument and the magical world they enter when they become “lost” in music. She is primarily interested in the shapes musicians make, the juxtaposition of shapes when they play together and the space created between them.. Her paintings have been described as "Modigliani meets East European Folk Art”