Joanne Augustine

Joanne Augustine attended Wheaton College, UCLA, Pennsylvania State University, the Cleveland Art Institute and was a student of Hobson Pittman and William Smith. She has taught painting at the Art Institute of New Brunswick, the Princeton Art Association, the Princeton Adult School, and currently in her own studio. She has demonstrated and given lectures entitled "Expanding the Horizons of Watercolor", "Creative Color for the Artist", and Photography for the Artist" Her art work has garnered numerous awards, belongs to collections in the U.S. and abroad. A member of the National Association of Women Artists, Philadelphia Watercolor Society, New Jersey Watercolor Society, Garden State Watercolor Society [Charter Officer}, the Princeton Artists Alliance, and is an Associate member of the National Watercolor Society and American Watercolor Society.

Publications include"Best of Watercolor Painting...Texture" Rockport Publishers 1997, Best of Watercolor Painting...Composition" 1997, "My Approach to Painting...Paint what you Love" Palette Talk 1992, "The Best of Flower Painting" Northlight Publishers 1999 and "Painting More Creatively" , 1999.

Artist Statement:
Flowers and beautiful weeds are my current passion. I try to capture their essence and spirit in my paintings. I find them a spiritual resource, putting me in touch with my own deeper intuitions and reverence for nature. I like to paint them in all of their life cycles. To me, technique and the medium are not so important, but rather the artist's 'feeling ' about the subject and his or her special way of seeing.

Flowers are becoming almost too fragile and beautiful to exist in our modern world of graffiti, crime, and pollution. They are a metaphor for our own lives , challenging us with their beauty and reminding us that we too are on borrowed time!