Joyce studied art with Florence Quatar in Tucson for years prior to attending the University of Arizona and later studied watercolor with Lee Shapiro in Denver. Learning the technical aspects of painting served as a necessary foundation for the spiritual art that Joyce would create for the rest of her life. Her years of meditation and esoteric study have allowed her to bring forth images from her higher consciousness. Her paintings and prints are in private collections around the globe. She and her husband Gerald Stanek have owned and operated art galleries and frame shops for the past 25 years. They have also collaborated on numerous children’s books, where Joyce illustrates Gerald’s stories. She has recently completed her memoir, Cooking Over My Head. In it, she describes her process:

“To me, painting will always be a meditative process. Many of the images I paint are given to me during meditation, or come during those moments between worlds, when one is just waking up. I don’t try to figure out their meanings, I just paint the vision. Time stops when I start mixing colors; intuition guides my strokes. Painting is all about discovery, making connections between the subconscious mind, the hand, and the canvas. There’s always a surprise when I put down the brush and move back, always more and less there than I intended. At that point I begin to see what the muse was saying, what the painting is meant to depict, and I work to emphasize that spirit.

“Years ago, while meditating in my living room, I opened my eyes and looked out to the street where a friend was standing in the yard. I saw that person connected to a nearby tree with infinitesimal lines of light, and those same lines connected to a bird in the sky and to a child playing down the block, and to the sun and back to me sitting in my living room. Nothing is unconnected. I was able to sense the whole. I have tried to paint in this light, to include this sense of connection in my work ever since.”

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