New Art In The Gallery - Paintings by Joyce Garner

Joyce Garner documents her rich inner world (a world of acrobats, wanderers, animals, magic, city and forest) in large, vividly-pigmented surrealist paintings.  Garner has had fourteen solo exhibitions of her work since 1991. 



Cold Shoulder - Copyright Joyce Garner

 Joyce is a self-taught artist.  The painterliness and scope of her work reflects deep study of various forerunners - Cassatt, Matisse, Picasso, and Chagall.  Her ambitions for her work are shaped by how she uses art in her personal life; she prefers art which rewards extended meditative contemplation.



Eggshell - Copyright Joyce Garner



A native Kentuckian, Joyce's earliest influences were American pop culture, fairy tales, children's novels, Appalachian craft traditions and the lamplit realities of rural living.  Joyce describes her work as "a world of my own making.  I can enter in and really spend time there.  And when I'm in the painting, it feels like magic."