Artist Profile

Joanne Turney has traveled extensively through the Middle East, Pakistan, India, Bangkok, the Kybher Pass, and Europe. For 15 years, she lived on the Costa Del Sol in Spain. The passion and colors of that land and its people emanate from her exuberant paintings.

As a devotee and student of classical music, Turney moved naturally into painting to which she brought her innate sensitivity to composition, texture and rhythm. She has been featured in many exhibitions internationally including a one-person exhibition at La Casa de Cultura, Estepona, Spain, which marked the first time an American artist was invited to show there. She also exhibited at Multi Media Art Gallery in New York, Sotogrande Poste Hotel in Spain, and the Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC. Her paintings are on premanent view at Eclectic Nature in Alexandria, Virginia.

Turney's work is in many private collections including Osman Ali, former Executive Director of the World Bank, and the Director of the Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan. Corporate collections include: International Resources Corporation, Washington, DC; Mallorcan Properties International, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; and Hyatt Hotel, Arlington, VA.

"The Art of Healing" is Joanne's poignant series of thirteen paintings that depict the emotional stages of her battle against and recovery from breast cancer. They encapsulate the universal feelings associated with loss, suffering, fear, faith, hope and healing.

The artist says, "I approach my work with feelings of reverence and gratitude, since it is art that provides me with the gift and opportunity to explore the mysteries of life."

Turney earned a BA from The George Washington University and pursued graduate work at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. She studied with Gene Davis from the Washington Colorist School and internationally renowned painter James Twitty. She also attended the Art Students League in New York. She currently works out of her studios in Washington, DC and New York City.

Praise for Joanne Turney

"Strong, confident, defiant, and free, these are the nature works of a vibrant Mother Earth woman whose God-given wildness lives, whose inspiration is drawn from the flaming heart of creation itself, and whose art brilliantly manifests the unstinting display of Divine abundance."
Sylvia Percupile, Manhattan Arts International magazine

"Perhaps no other painter since Jackson Pollack has put so much energy into the gesture, although Turney's pigments are applied in a more serene manner, creating flowing rhythms devoid of violence… The spirit of affirmation permeates all of her paintings, filling the viewer with an appreciation for the poetry and the wild force of nature, its raw, untrammeled beauty."
Sidney Gilbert, ARTspeak magazine

"The most abstract painter in the show is Joanne Turney, whose canvases combine lyricism with rugged tactility in a manner akin to color field painters such as Jules Olitski. However, Turney's scroll painting, 'Springtime in NY', an acrylic on canvas with agate, captures a sense of its subject in nonobjective terms."
J. Sanders Eaton, Gallery & Studio magazine