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Joyce Burton-Sousa

Watercolor
joyce@jabsart.com
jabsart.com

My passion for watercolor and texture is prominent in my work. I enjoy painting a variety of subjects including landscapes and still-lifes, and people engaged in the activity of living—both work and leisure.

I have a particular fondness for watercolor because of its fluidity and ability to surprise—even the artist. I indulge that aspect of the medium in my work in many ways. Often I am interrupted, and I will pick up the painting “too soon” and let the colors meander across the paper to the side, top, or bottom edges. Sometimes I am impatient to move on to the next stage of the picture, so the colors—still damp—are allowed to simply merge as they choose. At other times, life calls and I must stop where I am and pick up later. The flow is halted. Thus paint dries and can leave behind a problem I must return to and resolve. And most often, I just cannot resist the urge to experiment—just to see what happens. My paintings are not drawn in isolation from life, but in the midst of it. I encourage my pictures to reflect all of that. I have no fears about what the paint might do on the paper—where it might go, boundaries it might cross, as well as borders that may form and intrude. I let it live and love to participate in that process. The merger of me and my work; the merger of life and art.

My paintings are to be enjoyed and celebrated for the pleasure involved in their creation in the hope that pleasure can be passed on to others.