Joan Harvey
Fine Art and Other Things
Joan Harvey
Joan Harvey is an award-winning artist, living and working in rural Connecticut. She spent many years in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as on Cape Cod.
Her work has been inspired by the hum of Silicon Valley and the relaxed vibe of the Cape.

The Chair Series
When I moved to Cape Cod, I dabbled in antique dealing. I was pretty successful. I would to go estate sales and auctions. It was fun and, as a novice, people said I had 'a good eye'. This lead me to discover that I loved old chairs and I had a collection of them in my barn's hayloft. They have such character.

Beth's Chair
Pastel

Yellow Chair
Pastel

Captain's Chair
Pastel

Boots
Pastel

Three
Pastel

Lilies
Pastel
Everywoman

Everywoman
This series of paintings is about stories of the lives of women. Some are women I know, women I've heard about, other stories are my own. Theirs are lives of courage and dignity, both simple and complex. Everything is possible and nothing is easy.
Sometimes everything matters, sometimes only one thing matters, and still other times nothing matters at all.
Our goals are simple, to be kind, to be brave, to be true. And when we can't, we wrap ourselves in out tattered dignity and carry on.
These women can be any of us. All broken hearts are the same heart. All lost souls are the same soul. In saving you, I save myself.

He Was Always Right There
30" X 30"
Mixed Media

When I Get Home
8" X 8"
Mixed Media

Crow
30" X 30"
Mixed Media

By Moonlight
8" X 8"
Mixed Media on Panel

Going Home
24" X 30"
Mixed Media

Rolling Seas
16" X 20"
Acrylic/Mixed Media

Aye Aye Aye
24" X 24"
Mixed Media on Panel

Lost In Thought
18" X 24"
Mixed Media on Panel
Back In California

Second Thoughts
18" X 18"
OIl on Canvas

Open Fields
20" X 20"
Oil on Canvas
Early Work

City Night
Acrylic on Canvas
Recent Explorations

Acrylic Inks, Paint, Pen on Watercolor Paper

Getting Complicated