Canberra artist Joy (Eftihia) McDonald, is a multi disciplinary artist and painter.She hires and sells her work to collectors nationally. Her work is featured on the Craft ACT (APM) and the ANCA (Australian National Capital Artists) websites. Her ceramic pieces are sold through the Craft ACT shop and FORM craft and design in Western Australia. Early ceramic works may be viewed at COLA.
Terrain
acrylic on canvas 56 cm x 56 cm
Rivulet
acryic on canvas 51 cm x 51 cm
Tide break (private collection ACT) SOLD
acryic on canvas 46 cm x 46 cm
Flood
acrylic on canvas 123 cm x 99 cm
Scrub (Private collection ACT) SOLD
acrylic on canvas 123 cm x 99 cm
Banksia 1 (Natural Selection series)2009
acrylic on canvas 76 cm sq
Canberra artist Joy McDonald, has long been interested in exploring the patterns, rhythms and marks of nature in painted form, and has extended this interest in her latest exhibition, Connections, at M16 Art Space, Canberra, from April 20th to May 8th 2011. (see Natural Selections)
In her works, she abstracts the natural forms to a series of graphic units – the dot, the line, the stroke. With these simple coded units she uses a technically simple form of printmaking and painting, to build complex layers of colour, depth and movement. Moving away from representing the natural world in a literal form she deconstructs images using repetition of marks to create moving surfaces of colour which allude to energy fields, wave systems and other unseen patterns within the natural world.
Joy graduated from the ANU School of Art in 1997 majoring in Ceramics, sub-majoring in painting. Since then she has worked in painting and ceramics, and now in print. Her work has been involved in corporate hire and she has work in various business collections in Canberra, interstate and overseas as well as the Canberra Museum And Gallery. In 2008 she was a finalist in the Fleurieu Biennale, South Australia, and again a finalist in three categories with two high commendations in 2011. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Rosalie Gascoigne Grant from the Capital Arts Patrons Organization (CAPO) and a recipient of Project Grant from Arts ACT 2011 for a puppet show for the 2013 Canberra Centenary. . Ed. by A. Munro