All Portfolio items

There seems to be nothing about this image (..) this person definitely did exist and at some point become some part of Joy’s life. Maybe you know who it is

Mother and child was approached more than once, likely a bit of a caprice as a composition

The strong bond which is illustrated here between mother and child (…) the tender affection

Member of the Monarchist League, (…) he looks like something out of Dickens

Once again this is a memorial portrait painted for a friend who’s mother passed away

This fellow died prematurely and this commission was a memorial portrait

Jack the framer; an obviously relaxed and handsome fellow

This portrait has an unusual devotion to variations of yellow ochre and of course that is what ties the whole thing together

Lynn Atkinson, a good friend of Joy’s having become the first executive director of Arts Scarborough as it got off the ground

Having painted this for the fun of it the purchaser found that it looked like her grandfather

Wayne Williams, Joy’s ‘tap’ instructor for many years. Apparently a terrific fellow with a great sense of humour

Unlike the other more acidic and bored group in their Lipton’s Soup portrait these folks are a more embraced arrangement