Originally from London and now based in Wiltshire, Joanna studied Textile Design at Central Saint Martins. After working across a range of industries, she became a mother to two daughters. Motherhood reignited her desire to create, leading her to begin painting.

Her process begins with smaller works that act as a space for experimentation; building momentum and generating ideas through making. Working with pencil, acrylic, watercolour and ink encourages immediacy and a direct, responsive approach to mark-making. More recently, she has incorporated collage, constructing images in ways that reconnects with her background in textiles and weaving.

These smaller works feed into her large-scale oil paintings, which develop slowly through layers of fluid paint and expressive marks. Images emerge, dissolve and reappear as the paintings evolve, with intuition playing as important a role as intention.

Her work has developed through periods of significant change: becoming a mother, leaving London and moving through midlife. Each experience has shifted her relationship to place, purpose and selfhood, bringing a sense of dislocation and prompting questions about where, and how, we belong.

At the heart of her practice is the idea of homing: both a search and a remembering, a movement towards something familiar that may no longer exist in the same form. For Joanna, home is not simply a place we return to, but something we carry, rediscover and continually make within ourselves.