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Barcelona by Joy Lea

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ARTIST NOTES: None

DIMENSIONS (Height - 60.00 cm X Width - 90.00 cm )
MEDIUM ON BASE Acrylic on Canvas
GENRE Contemporary
REGISTERED NRN # 000-37829-0145-01
COPYRIGHT © Joy Lea
PRIZES AND AWARDS No Awards
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Artist: Joy Lea



ARTIST BIO

Education



Studied Art at Brighton Technical College, Fine Art Painting at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Costume Design for the Theatre at Perth Technical College.



Tutored by John Davis, George Baldessin, Fred Cress, Andrew Sibley, Geoff Stocks, Sandra Leveson, Peter Clarke, Patrick Moss, Cedric Flower and Rick Rowton.



Work Experience



Worked as Primary Art Teacher at Sacred Heart School Sandringham, Victoria.



Worked as Secondary Art Teacher at Bonbeach High School, Victoria.



Display Artist for the Festival of Perth.



Art Teacher at Brighton Art Society, Beaumaris Art Group and Cheltenham Art Group and Mentone – Mordialloc Art Group.  Also taught private students at Red Hill, Victoria.



Awards



1964 Winner of scholarship to study and work with Florence Broadhurst.



Best Painting Brighton Art Society Show



Best Painting Beaumaris Art Group; Judged by Helen Maudsley



Isobelle de Soyres Figure Drawing Award



Hodges Award



Winner of St Michael’s Uniting Church Melbourne Most Expressive Face Invitation Award.



2011 Finalist Walker Gallery, “She Who Loves” Exhibition



2012 Best Contemporary Painting, Brighton Art Society



2013 First Prize “As Scene at Beaumaris”



2013 Paintings selected to be included in International Contemporary Masters Vol. VIII a jury selected International Art Book (published in June 2014)



2014 Best Contemporary Painting, Brighton Art Society



2016 Best Contemporary Painting Mentone Mordialloc Art Group



Numerous awards for acrylic, watercolour, gouache pastel and pencil.



Exhibitions



Six solo exhibitions and many invitational and mixed exhibitions.



Personal View



Using my imagination and conveying the underlying emotions are the most important considerations when painting or drawing.



I find painting compulsive, delicious, calming and exciting!   It is also an ongoing source of intellectual and sensual pleasure.