Joy Engelman is a fine artist living in the Central West of New SouthWales, Australia. She is well known for her landscape paintings, artworks and images, including photographs, of the region and western desert. Engelman works in watercolour, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, drawings in conte crayon and other media.

Joy has an established career as an Australian artist with over 35 years of experience in teaching, work shops and exhibiting in the arts. There are over 700 paintings hanging on a wall somewhere. Her CV is extensive with many group and solo exhibitions in Sydney (Holdsworth Galleries), Canberra, Bathurst and the Blue Mountains. She has been highly awarded in the arts over the years and is included in anthologies of AustralianArtists. Joy has sold paintings internationally as well as nationally. Her curriculum vitae can be found here.

In December 2007, Joy Engelman exhibited a large landscape painting of the western desert at the Florence Biennale in Italy as an invited artist. Joy was awarded the Lorenzo il Magnifico Award for her triptych. Engelman has been invited to return to Italy to exhibit at the Estense Castle in Ferrara later this year.

Joy is an Outback painter having travelled the desert areas and countryside that she loves west of Orange NSW. Mixed media, mainly acrylics and inks on canvas and paper, are the mediums that Joy chooses for her most expressive and large works on canvas. These fine art works demonstrate the range of techniques that Joy can call on to create her surreal landscapes.

Every painting and image on this website is the sole work of Australian Artist, Joy Engelman and is authenticated and certified as the orginal work of the artist.

	Mungo Panels
	Installation at In Site Out - November 2007 at Orange Botanic Gardens   "The Spirit of the Land" - Joy Engelman and Ngairi Reynolds "Drawing Together" Awards - Canberra July 2007 Australian National Archives Painting purchased by the Federal Dept of Envionment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

Joy's greatest love is watercolours which she uses to express her love of nature and especially flowers. She paints these now to celebrate the life of her mother, with whom she had a special relationship and spent many hours collecting flowers and gardening. Her love of Irises comes from the collection that her mother put together. Check out her current watercolour paintings in the Watercolours section online.

Photography is another area that Joy uses to pursue and document her particular 'way of seeing'. She has a large collection of Australian images that has been developed over her lifetime as an artist. During these past 5 years, Joy has expanded her love of photography into a study of digital art and in particular, Illustrator and Photoshop. Some of her photos can be viewed at the online photo section.

COPYRIGHT

The work on this website is only intended to be a guide of some of Joy's artwork and in no way reflects the depth and quality of the finished painting. An artwork can only be truly valued in its original form. However, some works have been set for print production and are available on Art 2008.

Copyright is retained by the artist and her family unless expressly given in writing to the purchaser and at an additional cost. Please feel free to browse the website, but please do not copy images or paintings for commercial purposes. To protect copyright, large format images are not available on this site. For a larger image and details of price, size etc, please click on the image.

All paintings are executed in mixed media with a broad range of acrylics, inks and gold finishes applied. All paintings are on stretched canvas and ready to hang. You may take the images from the website to be used for your own purposes, however, the act of copying art work is always an infringement of rights and respect should be given to the originator. In creating images for the web, even if taken from original paintings, the quality of the original image is compromised severely, so always keep in mind that true art will always be the experience when the viewer comes into contact with the original painting. Anything else is always a lesser experience.