Serenade

Exhibition Notes

Joan Webb is a traditional watercolourist. She allows the inherent light of the white page to shine through the delicate washes of transparent pigment. In this way she achieves remarkably delicate effects of light and shades of colour. In recent years, her palette has become more positive, resulting in a general strengthening of her personal and highly identifiable style.

Joan has exhibited widely in The Royal West of England Academy, The Royal Institute of painters in Watercolour, The Royal Hibernian Academy, The Bankside Gallery, London, and various galleries in Devon. This is her tenth solo exhibition at Kennys.

Growing up in the Forest of Dean with those wonderful natural surroundings has given her a lifelong interest in landscape. She is at home in the woods, and her paintings of trees are beautifully observed. Working from her house in Clifden has enabled her to study the rugged coastline with a series of rock and harbour studies. Springtime invariably means renewed interest in the wildflowers on Conamara, and the remarkable variety of plants and shrubs in her garden there. She has had a deep fascination with the wild boglands near her home, and has, in recent years painted a series of paintings of Autumn bog studies showing the rich and wonderful colours which transform the landscape before the advent of winter. These are paintings which convey the artist's joy in the image of changing Conamara. A true Serenade to Nature.