Joanna's hand appears to be guided by this piercing poem by William Blake.

Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Her vision guides her brush to create hauntingly beautiful animals framed in unusual compositions. The Chinese traditionally thought emotion was expressed through the eye of the artist. In her pictures it is the spirit of the beast that emanates from the eye. Another great poet, John Keats, wrote:

‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
its loveliness increases.
It will never Pass into nothingness’.

There is an inner power to her dynamic African Wildlife Paintings where she paints only parts of an animal, for this she has become well known but another subject she is equally acknowledged for is the British Brown Hare which induces folk lore and mysticism. Her latest work with this subject ‘The Zodiac Hare’, shown on BBC’s ‘Spring Watch’ in 2006 combines the mystical with the surreal.

Her paintings are objects of beauty and magic to be collected and treasured for a life time and to touch the soul of the admirer.