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Joyce Piotrowski is a painter with food on her mind. Many of her paintings are what she calls, “Market Still Life”. Not artfully arranged still lifes, they are instead abundant groupings of vegetables and fruits as you would find them at a farm or farm market. There are tomatoes ripening on sunlit windowsills, a single pear waiting on a desk top, bunches of beets and spring onions, and garlic that seems to fall through the air. These paintings beg to be shown in kitchens and dining rooms. Her style verges on photographic realism. Her mediums are pastels and oils.
If you know Joyce’s history, you can understand her fascination with fruit and vegetables. Joyce has written about food for 30 years, for The Washington Post and for several food magazines. When she wasn’t busy writing about food she was cooking it at one of her two restaurants or her catering company.
Joyce is also drawn to painting portraits of children, older people and pets. She welcomes casual portrait commissions. For portraits she works from photos taken during a scheduled sitting.
The University of Virginia, The University of New Mexico, Gallup campus and Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas are just some of the places where she studied drawing and painting during a lifetime of travel with a military husband.
Joyce Piotrowski has shown her work here in Melbourne through the Brevard Cultural Alliance. She has also shown her work at The Torpedo Factory in Alexandria Virginia and is currently a member of The Art and Antique Studio in Eau Gallie.