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Joan Baker lives and works in Shropshire.
She was born in Wolverhampton 1943 and studied at Wolverhampton
College of Art and Birmingham University. Her paintings are exhibited
at WorkshopWales, Manorowen, Pembrokeshire, The Silk Top Hat Gallery,
Ludlow, Shropshire and from her studio.
Because she paints her way through her life,
her work is in a constant state of metamorphosis. Her brush with
cancer in 2006 and her practise of meditation created a series of
paintings which identify with the spiritual and emotional journey
through this period. 'The Dance of Unknowing', 'Meditation', 'Return
to the Light' are part of this period.
Other sources of inspiration are the Pembrokeshire
landscape and the Isles of Scilly; especially from the reality of
the seen composition; the internalising or digesting the energy
from this and then the interpretation onto the paper of the "other"
reality.
Her work is now in collections here and
abroad.
Exhibitions in 2007 will be at Tal y Llyn Nurseries, Meifod, Powys
in June, Old Bell Gallery, Motgomery in August
and the Silk Top Hat Gallery in Ludlow in September.
For information or invitation to preview please phone 01588 638819
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