Actually, rest has been part of the mode of my operation in art. I try never to work on my art unless I am somewhat peaceful, so I can convey what I think art is supposed to say. It’s supposed to make you feel good.  In this instance, it actually made me feel good and somewhat healed me.

And I am happy for the opportunity to be an artist. I am happy for the opportunity that it gave me to learn how to deal commercially, with myself treating clients and people so that everybody was happy in the end. I am sixty-eight years old. I am still going. I have an aunt that’s ninety-seven who has a studio in New York City at Union Square. Her art has been her life also. My granddad was an artist.   My daughter is an artist.  My mother was an artist. My sister is an artist.  And our family is riddled with them, and we’re all very happy… I hope you enjoyed the spectacular that Pat Goodrich has put on.

Joanne Isaac. Printmaker. Quakertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.  Education: Parson’s School of Design and Yale School of Fine Arts.  Collections include Unicef, the U.S. Embassy in Paris, New Ginkaku Yedoya in Kyoto, Honololulu Academy of Fine Arts, Free Library of Pa., and New York Public Library.  Joanne Isaac exhibits internationally.

Hi. My name is Joanne Isaac. I live rurally in Quakertown Pennsylvania, U.S.A. I’ve lived in a wonderful old farm- house for over forty years. I do believe it’s inspired my art. 

The art I want to speak about today is what I did after 9-11 in New York. Being a graphic artist and specializing in flora and selling many of my floral multiples to Japan, etc., I must say after 9 -11 I was not much inspired, and I decided to do a 40” by 60” image, oil painting, of little thumbnail portraits of as many people as I could fit on this canvas and jot down little notes. I worked off the Internet, the site was put up by the New York Times. It gave me the opportunity of reading and thinking about all these various people, all their lives, all their loved ones, and all the pain and probably much of the beauty that came out about the strength of New York City. I tucked Mayor Guiliani down in the bottom there. And for me it was sort of a rest. 

Joanne Isaac