Joyce Adrian
watercolour artist

Joyce Adrian was born in New Westminster, grew up and raised a family in Saskatchewan, and now lives in the Shuswap with her husband, her cat and his dog. In her career, she free-lances as an interactive media developer. As an active member of the community, she belongs to the Salmon Arm Toastmasters Club and the South Shuswap Canada Day Society. In her personal life, aside from a passion for creating art, she enjoys line dancing, playing snooker with 'the ladies' on Friday afternoons; and she loves to hike and entertain.

Artist's Statement

"Our childhood experiences, emotions, and reasonings are the foundations on which we build our personality. That this is so, is incredibly remarkable because so much of our childhood is lost in illusion, lost in half-remembered scents and sounds, recalled in scattered bits and pieces, without a date in time.

"We recollect them through various mediums — emotions, colours, flavours, sometimes songs — and the power they wield over our lives is deceptive. We shrug off them off as childhood memories, and yet, they're the guiding stars by which we steer our life.

"In my art work, I play, not with specific memories of my childhood but with the visceral ideas and interrelationships that formed, many years ago, in my childmind."

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