Joy Clements

Newtownabbey

Phone +44 (0)28 9080 0639

Email joy.clements@ntlworld.co.uk

Joy was born in Newmarket, Suffolk and grew up in Kingston on Thames. She studied with John Turner RUA and has been painting professionally since the early seventies. Her early work was based on dream symbolism, particularly mandalas, strongly influenced by the writings of Carl Gustav Jung. Joy believes that art is the endeavour to capture the essence of a subject, often starting from the complex and arriving at simplicity, or vice versa. It is about feeling and seeking with passionate intensity, sometimes to be astonished, briefly pleased or disappointed and never satisfied. Her subject material includes figure work (particularly children), portraiture, still life etc., and she works in all of the traditional media. Joy is past president of the UWS and also of the USWA and she has also served as secretary in both societies. She is also an elected Associate of the RUA. She exhibits annually with the societies and in shows in the major Ulster galleries. Her awards include the Perpetual Trophy (twice) and the Max Maccabe Rose Bowl from the USWA and her work is in many private and public collections including the UTV collection and the National Self-Portrait Collection in Limerick.