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About Joan
Drawing people and designing ladies’ fashions kept Joan Constable totally involved in the visual arts from first grade on. Daughter of furniture designers and manufacturers in Canada, Joan was influenced in the arts all her life. She graduated from California State University, Fresno with a BA in Fine Arts and taught in this field in Fresno, Kings, and Madera Counties before opening studios in Clovis and North Fork, California.
Her series, “Our Incredible Future is an Endangered Species,” includes 13 larger-than-life portraits of children and hangs in a permanent collection in the Conference Room of Valley Children’s hospital in Madera, CA.
She works in several disciplines— drawing, painting, sculpture, and fabrics which allow her to experiment with acrylics, charcoal, pastels, oils, watercolors and airbrush painting. “Painting with Paper” gives her opportunities for non-traditional images in the ancient tradition of collage.
Her pieces hang in private collections in Canada, England, Mexico, Scotland and United States and she is active in an international art exchange, “Hands Across the Border.”
As a muralist in the Sierra, her love of history shows up in her pieces “Grandma’s Garden,” “North Fork 1935”and “Aikido”on the main street of the historic town of North Fork, California where she is the founding president of the North Fork Arts Council.
The rich farmlands of the San Joaquin Valley intrigue Constable in her many paintings of grapes which she considers the “Jewels of the Valley”
She and her students of The Burning Brush Art Studio are the recipients of many contest awards.
Constable is fondly known in the Yosemite area as “Joan of Art.”
The Burning Brush Art Studio
(559) 877-4195
PO Box 823, North Fork, CA 93643
Her series, “Our Incredible Future is an Endangered Species,” includes 13 larger-than-life portraits of children and hangs in a permanent collection in the Conference Room of Valley Children’s hospital in Madera, CA.
She works in several disciplines— drawing, painting, sculpture, and fabrics which allow her to experiment with acrylics, charcoal, pastels, oils, watercolors and airbrush painting. “Painting with Paper” gives her opportunities for non-traditional images in the ancient tradition of collage.
Her pieces hang in private collections in Canada, England, Mexico, Scotland and United States and she is active in an international art exchange, “Hands Across the Border.”
As a muralist in the Sierra, her love of history shows up in her pieces “Grandma’s Garden,” “North Fork 1935”and “Aikido”on the main street of the historic town of North Fork, California where she is the founding president of the North Fork Arts Council.
The rich farmlands of the San Joaquin Valley intrigue Constable in her many paintings of grapes which she considers the “Jewels of the Valley”
She and her students of The Burning Brush Art Studio are the recipients of many contest awards.
Constable is fondly known in the Yosemite area as “Joan of Art.”
The Burning Brush Art Studio
(559) 877-4195
PO Box 823, North Fork, CA 93643
