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"Your art is the color of music...like music without sound."

Joan C. Thomson

Joan C. Thomson
With the aim of imparting a glimpse of heaven for now and the future I, “reach up and paint what the eye cannot see—the visions of the soul--with bright, bold colors”.
Margaret Becker “With New Eyes”

While always painting color (can’t live without it!), I often turn to mixed media to express the truths with which, The Holy Spirit has pierced my heart. Some argue the benefit of words over images while others prefer images alone. I have too much to say to settle for one. Similarly, mixed media frees me from the confines of just one medium. I use the combination that best suits my expression—luscious brushstrokes, calligraphy, text, drawing, printmaking, beautiful papers…

International artist JOAN C. THOMSON had always been known as an artist long before becoming a painter, doing artistic things such as designing needlepoint and arranging flowers. A late-bloomer, having spent far too many years as an accounting clerk, she began her formal art training in her 30’s. She studied at The Frog Hollow State Craft Center in Vermont and The Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Tennessee then earned an AFA in painting and printmaking at Central Piedmont Community College in North Carolina. “It took eight years, but it was one of the best things I’ve ever done.” Originally from Houston Texas, Joan lives in Charlotte North Carolina with her husband of over thirty years. She has exhibited widely and spoken to many groups. For years her art had traveled throughout the world without her but in in recent years she’s taken her art and skills to Spain and Albania where she taught art, trained an international team of artists and oversaw an international team in the designing and painting of a mural in a children’s hospital.

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contact Joan C. Thomson at joancthomsons@gmail.com