Joyce
Turner has been an abstract artist for many years and is still a vivid
colourist today. Twenty four of her works have been shown online by Saatchi
Gallery for the past two years. A gallery representative told Joyce ‘We found
your paintings beautiful and fascinating’.
Joyce’s
early artistic discipline came from complex drawings required of her as an
admiralty illustrator in World War 2. She was responsible for drawings of mines
and torpedoes, with their intricate components. At this stage, her personal art
was entirely figurative. After the war, Joyce turned progressively to
abstraction as her most satisfying means of artistic expression.
Joyce’s
current work reveals a refined sense of colour, composition and line. It also
shows an acute awareness of texture and dimensional effect achieved by the use
of layered semi-translucent tones. She works mainly in oils, using brushes and
the odd razor blade. Joyce combines her abstract art with paintings inspired by
such sources as religious works in Greece and Cyprus. Venice and New
York have been two other inspirations.
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