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JOYCE BURKHOLDER • Artist and Workshop Instructor
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Joyce Burkholder has been a full-time professional artist for 40 years. She began her career as a textile artist in 1970, and in 1980 started painting, first on silk, and has since evolved to include watercolours, oils and acrylics to portray her prize-winning mystical landscapes of local Algonquin scenery. Joyce's skilled use of glazing with many layers of thin, slightly transparent paint produce the subtle and sometimes dramatic lighting effects on canvas she is so well known for.
Her passion is painting outdoors on location in all seasons, also producing more painstaking and detailed work in her rural studio. Joyce Burkholder owned and operated the Wilno Garden Gallery, a successful studio, gallery and custom picture frame shop and now paints and exhibits in her home studio/showroom Hillside Paintings and Pottery with partner and potter Dan Hill, and offers Adventure Painting Workshops.
Both Joyce's surrounding perennial garden and the stunning scenic landscape nearby continually inspire her vigorous creativity, the source of her internationally collected and award-winning paintings.
Most of my paintings are done "en plein air", or in other words, outdoor on location. Painting outdoors presents various challenges: hot sun, rain, cold, bugs etc, but also allows me an opportunity to produce my freshest and perhaps most spontaneous paintings. Indeed, one has to be spontaneous because in time, the light angle will have changed, the wind may have blown the easel over, or the sun will have dried the paper and so on.
To me, the idea is to get the "feeling" of the scene: to paint the sound of the birds, the heat of the sun, the bite of the cold…the experience of being there.
2011 Plein Air workshop in Arizona at the: Scottsdale Artists School
2005 Acrylic workshop in Canada with: Charlie Spratt
2001 Watercolour workshop in Florida with: Bridget Austin, Ron Ranson
2000 Watercolour workshop in Florida with: Judi Betts, A.W.S.
1997 Custom Picture Framing course, London, ON
1997 Watercolour workshop in Canada with: Brian Ateyo
1996 Watercolour workshops in Canada with: Jack Reid, Gary Chapman
1995 Watercolour workshops in Florida with: Frank Webb, A.W.S., Tony van Hasselt, A.W.S., Max Muller, F.W.S., Joe Tarabula, A.W.S.
1994 Lakefield School of Fine Art, Watercolour Painting and Drawing
1992-93 Haliburton School of Fine Art, Japanese Brush Painting
1992 Buckhorn School of Fine Art, Watercolour Painting
1969-71 Ontario College of Art
2011 "Watershed", Group Juried Exhibition, South of 60 Arts Centre, Barry's Bay
2010-11 "Great Big Smalls", Group Juried Exhibition, Cube Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2010 "Nocturne", Group Juried Exhibition, South of 60 Arts Centre, Barry's Bay
2010 "Landscapes", Group Juried Exhibition, South of 60 Arts Centre, Barry's Bay
2009 "Spirit", Group Juried Exhibition, South of 60 Arts Centre, Barry's Bay
2008 "Wild Women', 3 Women Exhibition, Agnes Jamieson Arts Centre, Minden, ON
2008, '09, '11 "Invitation 2008, '09, '11 Group Juried Exhibition, Bancroft Art Gallery, Bancroft, ON
2007 "Wild Women of Wilno", 3 Women Exhibition, Wilno Station Gallery, Wilno, ON
2007 "Abstraction" Group Juried Exhibition, South of 60 Arts Centre, Barry's Bay, ON
2007 "Process" How Art is Made, Group Juried Exhibition, South of 60 Arts Centre, Barry's Bay, ON
2006 "Wild Women" Painters of Our Natural World, 3 Women Exhibition, Deerhurst Resort and Eclipse Gallery, Huntsville, ON
2006 "Landscapes" Group Juried Exhibition, South of 60 Arts Centre, Barry's Bay, ON
2005 Joyce Burkholder: An Artist 35 Years in the Making, Solo Retrospective Exhibition, South of 60 Arts Centre, Barry's Bay, ON
2005 "Madawaska Valley", Group Juried Exhibit, Mission Museum, Combermere, ON
2005 "Miniatures", Annual Juried Show, South of 60, Barry's Bay
2005 "Annual Member's Juried Show", Madawaska Valley Community Arts Council
2004 thru '11 "Mystery of the Park", Algonquin Park Visitor's Centre Annual Juried Show
2004 "Miniatures", Annual Juried Show, South of 60, Barry's Bay
2004 "Portraits", Annual Juried Show, South of 60, Barry's Bay
2004 "Annual Member's Juried Show", South of 60, Barry's Bay
2003 "Faith", painting used for poster, Juried Show, South of 60, Barry's Bay
2003 "Madawaska River", Travelling Juried Exhibit, South of 60
2002 "Portraits", Juried Show, South of 60, Barry's Bay
1999 "Vessels and Visions", Two person show, Bancroft Art Gallery
1972-2000 For many years I exhibited in Art and Craft Shows annually across the province:
• Signatures Show, Toronto
• Artisan, Japanese Cultural Centre, Toronto
• Rideau Valley Art Festival
• Beaches Art & Craft Show, Toronto
• Kingston Women's Art Festival
• Pelham Art Festival
• Autumn Treasures, Peterborough
1996-present Madawaska Valley Studio Tour
1992-1998 Bancroft and Area Studio Tour
1996 "Member's Juried Show", Bancroft Art Gallery
1994-95 Annual Juried Exhibit, East Central Ontario Artist's Association
1986 "Spiritual Nature", Solo Show, Bancroft Art Gallery
1984 "Li—The East", Solo Show, Wilno Craft Gallery
2011 Accepted as signature member in Artists for Conservation, AFC
2011 Published in book "Artists of Algonquin"
2010 Opened Hillside Paintings and Pottery Studio/Showroom, Wilno, ON
2010 Commissioned Painting "The Spirit of Adventure", Ontario Tourism promo for Outdoor Adventure
2010 Conducted 3-day Painting Workshop, Pontiac School of the Arts, Portage du Fort, QC
2007, 8, 9,10,11 Conducted Painting Workshops, July and Sept: Watercolour, Aug and Oct: Oil & Acrylic
2008 Magazine article published in Country Connection, "Great Blue Herons" with photographs
2008 Magazine article published in Country Connection, "Barron Canyon" with photographs
2008 Painting chosen for magazine cover, Ottawa Valley Tourist Association Travel Guide
2007 Conducted oil painting classes and workshops, Pembroke, Barry's Bay, and Wilno, ON
2007 Conducted watercolour workshop, Pembroke, ON
2007 Magazine article published in Country Connection, "Wild Women, wilderness painters on location"
2007 Painting displayed in Oprah Home magazine
2006, '07, '08 Paintings used for magazine covers, Country Connection Magazine
1997- 2009 Owner and operator of the Wilno Garden Gallery Studio, Gallery and Custom Picture Frame Shop
2005 Painting used for book cover, "A Path to Wholeness" by Tashene Wolfe
2005 Joyce Burkholder, Artist, CHRO TV News, Thanksgiving Weekend
2000 Joyce Burkholder: Wilno Garden Gallery, CHRO TV Feature Show, focus on Ottawa Valley
2000 Painting on front page for New Year's Issue Barry's Bay This Week
1998 "Madawaska Valley Artisans" Film by A. Villeneuve, one of three artists featured
1997-1999 Conducted Watercolour Painting Workshops, Bancroft, ON
1993 and 1994 Organized and attended Gary Chapman, Watercolour Workshop, Baptiste, ON
1993-94 Juror for Rails' End Gallery Members Show, Haliburton, ON
1989-91 Owned and Operated Tamarack Studio and Gallery, Bancroft, ON
1985-1990 Conducted Painting on Silk Workshops, Maple Stone Centre, Owen Sound
1983-1986 Conducted Painting on Silk Classes, Synergy Centre, Toronto and Bancroft Art Gallery
1983-1985 Painted Magazine Covers for `Common Ground', Toronto and Chicago and 'Vitality', Toronto.
1980-1982 Conducted Spinning & Weaving Classes, Toronto
2010 First Prize, Algonquin Park Visitor's Centre, Annual Juried Exhibition
2008 Third Prize, Algonquin Park Visitor's Centre, Annual Juried Exhibition
2007 "Honorable Mention", South of 60 Arts Centre, Barry's Bay, ON
2006 "Best Watercolour" Bancroft Art Gallery, Annual Juried Exhibition
2005 Second Prize, Algonquin Park Visitor's Centre, Annual Juried Exhibition
2003 First Prize, Best Photograph, Bancroft Art Gallery
1996 and 1997 "Best in Show", Bancroft Craft Guild, Bancroft, ON
1996 and 1997 "Best Display", Autumn Treasures, Peterborough, ON
1994 "Margaret Forde Award for Watercolours", Bancroft Art Gallery, Bancroft, ON
1993 "Best in Show", Bancroft Craft Guild, Bancroft, ON
1977 "Best in Eastern Ontario", Ontario Crafts Council Touring Exhibit
1977 "Best in Show" Hand of Man, Peterborough, ON