Canadian
artist, Joan Healey, has been painting for over thirty years. She is a
self-taught artist and has attended many workshops with Harold Olsen for
painting with Watercolors, and Harold Lyons for using Oils. Healey has
learned much from the Library and fellow artists for whom she has a
great respect for.
A
native of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Healey has been a fan of the
Canadian national Hockey League since her childhood and is married to a
former professional, Richard Healey, who played for the Detroit Red
Wings. Healey was a stay at home mom, and began to paint through her
Kinsmen-Kinette connection and the artist says she found a great sense
of peace with this new venture, after a very short time friends and
family started to encourage her by purchasing the artwork she created.
Healey is a mother of three, and Grandmother of seven. “Being a
Grandparent is your ultimate reward for being a parent. I have always
had a great love of children, perhaps cause I’ve never really grown-up
myself. “ Joan Healey is able to connect with children’s honesty and
spontaneity and this is why the artist enjoys painting them. For this
reason, children have been Healey’s subject matter over the years,
combining landscapes with children doing whatever children do. The hockey subject came from her family’s interest in the
game, and Healey does paint other sports as well.
Joan
Healey mainly paints now in watercolor and acrylic, not so much in oils
anymore. Along with many accomplishments Healey has done Calendars for
Canadian Tire (Nationally) she was chosen as the artist to do a calendar
for Alberta Pool with an entry of 80 other artists, also Home Hardware,
and a fund-raiser for Cystic Fibrosis. Healey does a calendar of her
own, for a Promotional Company and they sell it to various business
people who use the calendar to promote their own business which sells
over 70,000 a year in Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C. Healey says one of
her proud moments, was a painting she had done for Wayne Gretzky that
was given to the former Oiler player, by the City of Edmonton when he
left Edmonton. After the huge celebration at the Sky Reach Centre
Healey was invited to have dinner with Wayne, Janet, (and Paullina) who
was just a baby along with Walter and Phyllis Gretzky. The painting is
talked about in Wayne’s Book “Gretzky”.
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