Joan Baldwin’s work for her show Sights Unseen was inspired by her walks around Horn Pond in Woburn, MA. Her compositions are imaginary and her style of painting leans towards surrealism. The paintings take on a fantasy life of their own. As Baldwin works, her subjects evolve into exotic settings of forested scenes with imaginative colors, unusual foliage, water and occasionally pieces of furniture or animals interacting.

Artist Bio

Besides exhibiting at Kingston Gallery since 2003, Joan has had shows at Hopkinton Center for the Arts,  The Cultural Center of Cape Cod and the Winchester Public Library. She has also been a participant in a variety of invitational and juried shows, such as Home: Self, Spirit, Space at Clark University, Claiming the Spirit at Brandeis University, Close to Home, a juried exhibition at the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, Connecticut and More Unique Seats at The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury. She has received many awards, including the exclusive finalist award in works on paper from the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Artist’s Grand Program in 1999. She has been reviewed in Art New England, The Boston Globe and most recently Artscope.

Joan has lived and worked in the Boston area since 1995. She graduated from Purdue University with a B.A. in art education and has supplemented her education in Charlotte NC, London and Boston, including courses at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her studio is at River Street Artists, part of Waltham Mills Artists Association in Waltham, MA.