Joan Reynolds : Artist working on photographs and photomontages from Dublin

About Joan Reynolds

            Joan Reynolds was born in 1951. She is an artist working in photography for the last few years.  Joan studied drawing at the National College of Art and Design in 1987-88. Joan graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1998, specializing in Florentine artists of the early Renaissance.

She spent 20 years drawing and painting and directed a life-drawing class in Ardgillan Castle where she had a studio in the West Tower, and where she had a number of successful one-man shows in the 1990's and early 2000's.  She has also exhibited in The Daffodil Gallery and The Village Art Gallery in North County Dublin.Joan began using photography as a means of artistic expression in 2008 and to this end she has used a range of digital camera equipment including Pentax and Leica, and process RAW files in a digital editing suite.

Some of her images are intuitive captures, others are photo-montage works inspired by creative imaginative ideas and these are made using her own original photography.

 

Winter of the Soul Receding

Art to her is the most important thing,Joan considers art as,"Art makes us human".Her favorite artist is Lucien Freud. Because of his creativity, he could faithfully reproduce any face or body from any angle. She visits galleries in Dublin and prefers looking at art online. 

win_walsh

Her favorite piece of work that she has created is "Reflecting on a Dream " http://joanreynolds.org/ref_dream.html 

Reflecting on a Dream

At moment she is preparing her latest photographic work to be entitled "Commuting", It’s intended to be slightly surreal.She exhibits her work on her website and through Twitter. Her website is http://joanreynolds.org. She used to show her work in galleries in her area(Dublin), but they are now closed due to the recession.She works for her passion,Not make her living through art, but she wishes she could do that. She says that government support is inclined to go to regional people, more than people in the capital. As a support for locals she ran a life-drawing class for local artists,

Joan_of_Arc

Other than her art she cooks, and collect colloquial expressions. She thinks that people would find her life story surprising.

Keeping the Dissidents Out

For her art has to have a certain quality about it. Some people can reproduce something faithfully, but they don’t produce art. As an inspiration to other artists she says "If you keep working, you get inspiration to produce more and better, so long as you’re not in a rut." Her way of working is unique than some artists. When she has to work on new art, She gets visual ideas, and then take photos and merge them together to make an image.

You can find/follow her:

            Website: http://joanreynolds.org 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoanTReynolds   : @JoanTReynolds                 

The Sangreal

            She had one-man shows of paintings in Ardgillan Castle. Joan has shown her photographic works with the Boundless Gallery.

The Portal

Artist's Statement

I work from a combination of visual ideas based on unconscious, dreamlike, visionary inspiration and instinctive captures. 

Because I worked as a painter to begin with, I have an artist’s way of thinking about images, and composition is very important to me, and what lies between the edges of the frame. I work mostly in colour, having a greater feeling for it, rather than black and white.

My finished images are a combination of straightforward photographs and photomontages, the latter created using my own photos from my files.

Some of my imagery is influenced by surrealism, and juxtaposes incongruous elements in order to create something more unconscious in nature.