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K. JOANN RUSSELL ~ VISUAL ARTIST

Art Influences

K. Joann Russell drew with pencil and pen, painted with pastels, worked in fiber arts, and carved leather as a young girl. The artistic background of her parents acquainted her with a variety of art from architecture to fashion design.
Born in California, her childhood recollection of seeing for the first time the mosaic on the front of the Stanford University chapel, “all those pieces of color making a picture”, still influences her art. Her experiences in quilting and tapestry help her focus on design elements, especially color shapes. Playing with colors is her passion.
Art and Science in the Outdoors

Her paintings speak visual words of encouragement and joy through the beauty of God's creation around us. Because of her science background she often chooses an “up-close” viewpoint for her paintings, seeing the incredible beauty and interrelatedness of nature everywhere and suggesting to others to take more time “to stop to smell the flowers”.
Transition From Science to Art

Undergraduate and graduate study in chemistry and work in teaching and research preceded Ms. Russell's completion of a second major in interior design and a minor in art. She studied studio art with Northwest artists Carl Hall, Nelson Sandgren, L. James Kirk, and others.
Her work has been included in many juried shows and won awards, as well as featured in newspaper and magazine articles. Her paintings continue to be selected for numerous private and corporate collections.
Painting Subjects and Media

She works in more than one medium for the creativity and spontaneity it gives her. Landscapes rather than flowers were her principal subject matter until an art professor suggested she paint everything in her backyard! Flowers in strong colors and design were the result.
Her paintings of horses, cattle, and rural scenes flow from her family's ranch life experiences in California and southern Oregon. She also occasionally paints ocean and water scenes for their tranquility and constant change.
Living close to the waters of Puget Sound in Washington State and visiting Oregon beaches or southern Oregon mountain valleys provides sources for her seascapes and rural landscape paintings.
Signature Image of A Sunflower

Her strong sense of design and imagery as visual words attracted her to the sunflower. She thoroughly enjoys painting sunflowers. She had never painted sunflowers nor considered painting them until one year Blue Jay birds planted the seeds in her yard. She didn't even have a bird feeder to supply the seeds, and the birds hadn't voluntarily planted sunflowers in previous years. This experience became the inspiration for all of her art.
Art Collectors

Joann appreciates the collectors of her art and their comments about how it affects them. Using her experience in interior design, she helps people to color coordinate their decorating plans and to express their individuality with choices of unique pieces of art.
In addition to the original paintings and signed prints available on this website, art collectors of her work can shop for framed or unframed prints, gallery wrap canvases and greeting card reproductions of her original colorful paintings. Additional venues for her art are listed on the links page.
Contact the Artist

To contact her or to share your comments, suggestions and questions, please send an e-mail or comment on her social networking sites listed in Links

www.kjoannrussell.com
www.sunflowerstudioart.com

Copyright© 2000-2013 K. Joann Russell All Rights Reserved.
Artist K. Joann Russell paints original colorful paintings of sunflowers, landscapes, flowers, horses in her studio, Sunflower Studio Art.
Based in Tacoma, Washington, USA