Joan McLoughlin
Joan McLoughlin is a contemporary painter, currently working in acrylics. Her abstract paintings are expressive and imaginative with vibrant, lush use of color. She begins with a chaotic canvas, freely painted, with no deliberate plan. She then reins it in, forming composition, shapes and sometimes recognizable organic images, applying artistic principles as needed. Joan says “I try to achieve a balance between chaos and control. I am, by nature, a very structured, by-the-rules, perfectionist type. Art gives me the opportunity to be bold, confident and spontaneous.” The joy of painting is evident in her work.
Joan was born and raised in New York. After earning a BFA degree majoring in studio art and photography at Notre Dame of Maryland University in 2000, she exhibited and sold her art in Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C.
