Statement
I currently work in acrylic (paintings); colored pencil (drawings); and papier-mache, combined with other structure-building processes. Described as "visionary," the work is usually figurative and often seems to tell stories.

The making of art is a marvelous adventure. Getting started each day is the difficult part. After elaborate stalling, I putter half-heartedly in the studio. Almost immediately I am drawn in and I forget the other pressing problems of my little world. Each new decision takes me in a new direction, opens up new doors. Just as a writer says that the story writes itself, I feel that the art is telling me what it wants to be.

I am thinking of the audience often. I tend to assume that my audience will like what I like. This isn't always the case, but to say that I make art for myself only would be incorrect. Instead I am usually thinking of how I can make the viewer feel the kind of excitement I feel when I see my favorite artists work in museums and galleries. I want others to feel that joy in the excellence of achievement.

Biography
Joan Curtis has exhibited throughout New England and in invitationals elsewhere since 1980. Her work is in many private collections and the public collections of Middlebury College Museum of Art, the University of Vermont's Fleming Museum, and the Fuller Museum of Art (Brockton, MA). She received her education at the RI School of Design, the Chicago Art Institute, and NY University.