Joanne Coughlin

Joanne is a Calabogie - based contemporary and abstract artist who has been creating art for over fifty years. She grew up in Quebec City where she began painting landscapes in oil. After a thirty-one-year career in Government and the Aviation Industry, she retired in 2008 and moved to a lake outside of Ottawa with her husband and renewed her love of art. She has been painting full time ever since. Her artist statement is simple. She loves to create, she loves color, and she loves the beauty of nature. Her art is intuitive and implies movement and although abstract in style at least one of natures four elements usually comes through in her work. She loves mixing bright colours with muted colors and her art often combines a cool and warm palette.