Since childhood I have been fascinated with the many forms of free expression in the art world.  
  
When introduced to painting in my teens I was astonished by the work of others.  I began to paint in a certain style believing it would be more acceptable to the general public.  Soon this was not satisfying for me and I could not feel any connection to these images.  Boredom quickly set in, and I could no longer paint in a manner that did not represent what I felt, saw, heard, and loved.  Eventually I gave up, and put down the brush for many years.

As maturity set in, the spark for the arts began to burn once again, I approach a new painting with no formula or technique in mind, and this allows me to see what a new collaboration between paint, subject and attentiveness might produce.  I am drawn to things that make my world carefree and interesting, and I try to achieve balance, unity and harmony within myself and my art. Letting the paint dance between object/subject and illusion/reality, I believe that art should be fun and free of restrictions. I want the viewer to experience the same feeling as I do when I work on a painting, and have the painting bring forward emotions that are similar to my own or peculiar to the viewer. 

Starting with a vision, my creativity materializes from many different forms and feelings inside me, this in turn energizes onto the canvas. My paintings will never be the same and nor will they be different.

  Joanne Anderson
 “Grasshopper”
      

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; 
if from the head; almost nothing.”  
Marc Chagall