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My Background
My Inspiration
My Background
Joeann Dorey Harrington is a folk artist who works in the style and processes of her family's artistic traditions. Born among the tides of Nova Scotia, and transplanted into the fertile soils of South Louisiana, Joe's creative roots continue to take hold as her body of work grows. Through exploratory processes, she cultivates expressive imagery that is organic and earthy.
My Medium
My Inspiration
My Background
Today, Joeann carries these techniques and traditions into her mixed media creations. It's not uncommon for a single piece to incorporate glass, clay, paint, resin, or even living plants. Her caricatures reckon back to the seafaring characters of Nova Scotian folk art, while integrating the essence of those she's come to know along the wa
Today, Joeann carries these techniques and traditions into her mixed media creations. It's not uncommon for a single piece to incorporate glass, clay, paint, resin, or even living plants. Her caricatures reckon back to the seafaring characters of Nova Scotian folk art, while integrating the essence of those she's come to know along the way: creating weathered countenances that seem to conceal lifetimes worth of hard living, pain, and loss; humbled by experience, but tempered by the pride of life well lived.
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
Though she has received some formal training, Joeann's work cannot be separated from her folk art roots. As a teenager, Joe worked alongside her father, a compulsive artist himself, in a boat building facility. Here, Joeann learned to create three-dimensional armatures and advanced fiber glass processes. These trade skills, which allow fo
Though she has received some formal training, Joeann's work cannot be separated from her folk art roots. As a teenager, Joe worked alongside her father, a compulsive artist himself, in a boat building facility. Here, Joeann learned to create three-dimensional armatures and advanced fiber glass processes. These trade skills, which allow for a functional approach to creativity, were regularly adapted to create expressive mixed media sculpture. Joe's gravitation to resin was largely established during this time.
Joeann's paternal grandmother, also a compulsive folk artist, used Nova Scotian imagery and hooking techniques to create decorative rugs depicting the seafaring iconography of the region. Her work exhibits an intuitive sense of composition and color theory. Joeann still possesses her grandmother's hooking tools; fashioned by hand from whale bone in the manner of her Mique Maque ancestors.