Joanne L. Carothers

Fine Art Printmaking and Painting

Joanne is driven to portray a love for nature and organic forms. Her focus is to explore related elements inherent in defining a subject beyond visual description. Joanne’s passion for printmaking lies in the endless variety of techniques for manipulating materials to express her ideas. Varied subjects may be handled as traditional tightly drawn etchings or abstract landscapes and figures in painterly monoprints. Textures, color layers, and embossing are achieved by natural materials and found objects applied to collagraph plates; often incorporating hand-made papers to add dimension to my prints.

Joanne is a signature member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Society for my water-based monoprints and is certified as a Conservation Picture Framer from the Professional Picture Framing Association. Her artwork and framing designs are exhibited regularly in National and International Juried Exhibitions and in several private and corporate collections.