Potomac Valley Watercolorists

Featured Artist for April - JoAnne Ramsey                                                                                                                                                                 

My paintings combine two of my art interests - watercolor and photography.  I capture subjects that interest me, crop and edit areas of interest and then use this as a point of departure for my paintings. My subject matter runs the gamut.  I particularly love to paint close-ups of subjects with lots of detail. My style, while representational, is not photo realistic.  Some subjects are enlarged to the point of abstraction or transformed through rearrangement. 

Painting is an ever evolving process in which an artist combines life experiences, learned techniques, and personal choices in order to make a statement. There are many avenues in which a viewer may appreciate a work of art.  My goal is that each person who views my work find meaning through one of those avenues.