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Horses galloping upon the walls of the studio, and smaller artworks coming to life from the upright easel or with the small stretched canvas rested onto a knee... They are all around, softening away the past seven years devoted to a long visual 'research' on 'Cars'. Nature, breath, muscle, life, now inhabit the space. Beauty and energy prevail. For a moment the concrete and mechanical forces of the metropolis give way to a surge of unbridled freedom. Some ghostly presences passing through the space, others marked and repetitive, emphasizing their existence, in the memory of the painter. Horses. In the beginning, they are all born out of 'The Galloping Horses Mural', apart from one, half-Trackhener, of the lineage Joyce's maternal family used to breed in Lithuania, than in Norway, extracted from a miniature advert in an equestrian magazine. It has a little white frame... Joyce also remembers a beautiful photography of her texan grand-father, in his seventies, looking down from the back of a mustang, in the Amarillo canyon where the family would spend week-ends. More sprung out of the miniature thumbnail images in the classified sections of a few equestrian magazines... Later other works on canvas, also in oil, as all of those in 'The Horse Series' are, worked on the surface of a table, and echoe the artist's experience of the week, at a tangent. One of the 2 'Large Whistle Jacket' paintings on unstretched canvas took part in the 'Art House Group Show' , 'Glass Ceiling', during the month of July 2008. Some of the 'Horses Tableaux' found a home in a restaurant local to the Art House, where Joyce's studio is located, for a few months. Others were shown in a small gallery in Canterbury during the summer and autumn months of 2008.
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Joyce's fine-art and illustration website 2010
