Gallery
Recent works
Mare Montanum
Intermesori Fluida
Gran Sasso Exuberans
Samba Dell Albicocca
Untitled 1
Canna 2
Free Landscape
The Couple 1
Inspired by Mountains
Mare Montanum
Intermesori Fluida
Gran Sasso Exuberans
Gran Sasso
Monte Intermesori
Inspired by Nature
Samba Dell Albicocca
Untitled 1
Rumba Di Fico D'India
Free Landscape
Canna 1
Canna 2
Lilium Album
Accattapane Geometrica
Oliva Lunae
Persicum Lignum Nubes
Citrus Cavum Albus
Figurative
The Couple 1
The Couple 2
The Couple 3
Mark Making
The Spring 1
The Spring 2
The Spring 3
The Dance 1
The Dance 2
The Dance 3
Mountain Mark 1
Mountain Mark 2
Mountain Mark 4
Mountain Mark 3
Sketches – colour, drawing
Colour 3
Colour 4
Colour 5
Colour 6
Colour 1
Colour 2
Drawing 1
Drawing 2
Drawing 3
Drawing 4
Drawing 5
About
Artist Statement
In my work, I strive to achieve a delicate balance between figuration and abstraction, to evoke ideas and suggest emotions by reinterpreting rather than merely depicting nature. It is the rhythms and the fundamental forms found in landscapes, plants, and trees that inspire me, and these become the real subject of my work.
Artist Biography
Joanna Austin is a painter living and working in Abruzzo, Italy. She studied Fine Art at Hertfordshire University, winning the first prize. Her work is a personal synthesis of painting and drawing, utilising oil, acrylics and drawing media to achieve a combination of gesture and texture. Through observing nature and the landscape she aims to evoke a feeling or state of mind rather than depict a particular subject or place. She has exhibited in Europe and her work is in the collection of the University of Hertfordshire. She is a member of the Bellante art society.
Artist CV
Exhibitions (group unless otherwise specified)
- 2025
- Paintings, Ripattoni in Arte, Ripattoni, Italy
- Paintings, 33rd Extra Tempus, Fano Adriano, Italy
- 2010
- Dea et Luna, Calendula fuga, Winners Exhibition, UH Galleries
- Dea et Luna, London Short Film Festival
- Dea et Luna, UH Open Exhibition Winner
- Dea et Luna, Cutting Room, Nottingham Playhouse
- Calendula fuga, 23rd Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France, television
- Dea et Luna, Luton Hoo Walled Garden, Hertfordshire (residency), site responsive video installation
- The Conversation Continues, Field recordings, Regent Studios, London, documentation Hayward Gallery, performance
- Danger, Rag Factory, London, video installation
- Frou-frou, Market Estate Project, Islington, site responsive performance and sound installation
- 2009
- Showgirls, Voyeur Night, Whitechapel Gallery, performance
- Symposium, FIVE YEARS/JTG Project 09*, James Taylor Gallery, Hackney, performance
- Calendula fuga, +42 Degrees Fahrenheit, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane
- Calendula fuga, Degree Show University of Hertfordshire, video installation
- Face, Crypt Gallery, London, site specific video installation
Education
- 2004–2009
- B.A. (Hons) Fine Art 1st Class, University of Hertfordshire
- Best student award
- 1990–93
- Ph.D Physics, Imperial College, London
- 1987–90
- B.A. (Hons) Physics, 1st Class, Imperial College, London