Investigations of Form and Color

The "All Work" Gallery shows all work on the site, from the most recent to the earliest. As some works take years to complete, (such as Icon and Cascara) this placement is occassionally arbitrary. All works here can also be found in other galleries- according to subject matter and/or medium.
Please click on View All Artwork, within each gallery, to do just that. Galleries are in progress, always.

All paintings and mixed media work.

The works in this gallery (will) comprise most I have on the site ordered from the most recent to the least. Some works however evolved over a period of time, such as Cascara: the Mundane Shell, and therefore are placed at the time of their final completion. Or, if it is in a state of change, such as Icon, when the last work was done on the piece.

Dusk Works

My work has taken many twists and turns. I often find myself investigating something that I wish to understand better. After working in mixed media, and comparisons of various properties, I found myself missing color- I am primarily a painter. I wanted also to capture the way I see light-glowing. A focus for many years was and still is dusk. The images in this gallery express that interest- either through depiction of that light on organic shapes, in landscape, on architecture, or in the more abstract pieces, in the colors they embody.

Architectural

Architecture, with its verticals, frontally, and spaces flits in and out of my work. I handle it objectively, and abstractly and through architectural images utilized, and referred to in mixed media works.

Landscapes

Landscapes in paint, mixed media and photography

sculpture and two sided- mixed media works

mixed media

pastels

paintings

Calabasa Oaxaca,or La Maternidad/perched. Oil on board. Sold

Photographs

I have always taken photographs- usually to capture an effect I want to remember for my paintings. As research.. Sometimes these photos stand on their own- the idea is expressed completely as is. I don't consider or call myself a photographer- the current digital knowledge needed these days is beyond my scope or desires. I have shown them, once, to a very strong reception. They are to me records of what the eye sees. A starting point for other work, a remembrance of a moment. I never work directily from one photograph but several, and several views. This allows me to pick and choose those "real" phenomena that fit into what I feel most strongly about in the new painting or mixed mediia work.

Joan Roberts Garcia

Oils, pastels, mixed media, and sculpture.