Joan Miriam Adams
Sculpture & Paintings
joanmiriamart@hotmail.com

Joan Miriam Adams works within the framework of a very personal mythology, reinterpreting classic mythic images. These images have a dream-like quality and are used to express the artists's reaction to the human condition. These images are at once highly personal and universal.

Quality of idea, quality of form and quality of craftsmanship are essential components in expressing each idea. Working with a wide variety of materials including stone, wood, clay, metal or paint, the artist gives a concrete form to her ideas. The way the object is seen in space or the way it creates positive and negative space generates the movement and the emotional impact.

"The artist's virtuosity is manifest in the sensuous anthropomorphic forms which she creates from an amazingly wide range of materials and in sizes ranging from large commissions to pieces which fit in the palm of your hand." -- Jaqueline M Gallery, 1990

Works by Joan Miriam Adams are in private and public collections in both Canada and the United States, including External Affairs Canada, The City of Surrey and The City of White Rock.

Currently Joan Miriam Adams is working on a series of paintings and sculptures which includes along with the smaller pieces two major projects as follows. Over the last several years she has been working on an eleven foot long limestone carving of Singing Mermaids As well she is working on a series of paintings done in conjunction with a book she is writing. 


Links:
Living in Surrey/Arts: www.arts.surrey.ca