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AFFORDABLE ART FAIR - 4 February 2021

PANTONE COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2021 - ILLUMINATING YELLOW and ULTIMATE GRAY - CURATED EDIT

In December 2020, Pantone announced its annual Colour of the Year as not one, but two and we couldn’t be happier to work with the sparkling, sunny 13-0647 Illuminating Yellow in combination with the relaxing 17-5104 Ultimate Gray. Pantone have said that it's a marriage of colour conveying a message of strength and hopefulness that is both enduring and up-lifting. Something we all need for 2021

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@ my show of 2 large mixed media paintings on canvas, Undercurrents Gallery, Greenwich, London, 2016

- A middle-aged brown haired man wearing a hat:

" Now can you tell me please, what is the artwork, what is on the walls or yourself?"

I always, wether at one of my shows/exhibitions or just most days when representing my art and my brand in everyday public surroundings, dress very creatively. In fact, and since a very early age when I used to create, design and customise most of my every day clothes, I have always found creative fashion to be a great means of expression. 

Sometimes more daring then not, clothes and accessories tell a story and always have to excite me so as to make the event, the day or night worth engaging and being present at. 

When relaxing, I may be much more invisible too, blending in the ordinary, but usually always somehow wearing at least a little hint of yellow, my brand colour. (note: Joyce)

- A very short almost bold smiling man introduced by a tall woman:

" I very much feel and understand your work. I come from a little island that is disappearing due to the rising of the ocean level".

I had painted these 2 mixed media paintings on canvas (3 m X 2 m), outdoors, on a tarpaulin laid down upon the floor of the Art House's yard, where my fine-art studio is located. Absorbing the man-made environment and Nature, trees, birds, squirrels, space and sky around and above... sound and light and wild-life mixing with traffic noises and ambulance sirens... Our world, and my thoughts and feelings about it. And the planet, the animals... in a semi-figurative gutsy-expressionist manner, involving my body, and all my heart and soul, together with the intellect. " Gaia, what is your pulse from here? "

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January 15 (2014)

" Dear Joyce.

Thank you for … the very clever deck of cards with your horses pictures. You are a very talented woman! 

We have very much enjoyed reading your website and seeing all that you have created and what you are doing now. You have done such a good job of "following your passion"!… 

We send much love to you. Keep up the very good work!

Love, Nancy and Jamey. "

From my lovely groovy hip aunt in San Francisco, and my dear uncle James Saunders.

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" Comments " left onto the event notebook by visitors to my Open Studio on 4, 5 and 6 October 2013, Studio F2, First Floor, Lewisham Arthouse, SE 14 6PD, London GB.

Here they are:

* I think your work is really cool

* I loveyooscarlett (whatever that means i am not quite sure, the writing is difficult)

* (3 stars and 6 dots) It's really beautiful and colourful. I really love all of it (I only wish i could make such joy!) ---  followed by 3 hearts surrounded by lovely curls and swirls.

* I really like the stuff you make and your very pretty Honey --- last word underlined by a wavy line followed by a kind of heart and a fancy parentheses.

* A certain Daniel left his details after having sat on the sofa for a little while with a little group of young students from Goldsmith and telling me that he would love to be my assistant for a few months. He studies anthropology. I still haven't contacted him. 

* B..., from the neighbouring studio said: You brought a lot of joy to people. It's your colours, your... It's very soft. People don't do soft...

B... was next door to my studio, and heard the reactions, while I spent a lot of time down the corridor on Fire Officer duty. 

* Magical! XXX Anne

* Thanks Joyce. *Very Charming!! XXX Gian Lucas

* Amazing!

* Surprenant! (Surprizing!)

Merci! (Thank You!)

* another person's e-mail address, and another, and another who wants to be looked for on Facebook.

* (Big Heart) The horses. The happiest room! (exclamation mark with a little heart in place of the dot). Yes to the yellow ! (followed by a bigger heart)