Joanne Brooker is a member of the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory
For Joanne Brooker art is her language. This is the way she engages, the manner in which she provides feedback, and how she mirrors responses, the influences, experiences and situations that affect her. To do this, Joanne uses the tools she has a connection to, primarily acrylics, oils and ink.
Acrylics allow her to work in semi-opaque layers, creating fine detail, working quickly to capture an exacting vision. Oils attract her with intense colors, creamy textures and unpredictability. Ink is exacting, bold, and graphic; this medium fulfils Joanne Brooker’s need for clarification, negative space and the haiku of line.
All of these skills were brought to her ten years as an editorial artist for News Ltd newspapers, The Courier Mail, from 1992 to 2001, creating political and social comment on a daily deadline. She developed a pragmatic approach to creating art, the business of art and the power political cartooning. Joanne have spoken on many media industry panels, Writers Festivals, Art Festivals and lead workshops around the world on this subject.
On leaving the media world in 2001, she travelled, discovering a new context for her work. She had showcased her art in Qatar, Dubai, Bolivia, China, UK and Australia.
Joanne Brooker’s works are strongly influenced by the imagery available to her as a child. Comics, graphic novels, TV cartoons and fantasy movies.
They instructed her the economy of line, visual narrative, layout, animation and character creation.
Joanne spent studying the illustrations from Alice in Wonderland, the Arabian Nights, Hans Christian Andersen, and taught her the details, colors and the delicacy and power of the black line, the joy of grotesquery and the connections between illustration and words.
Her artworks represent streams of consciousness, where each brushstroke and color arrangement encapsulate a fleeting moment, a thought, or an emotion.
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