JoAnn Nava

ARTIST STATEMENT

JoAnn NavaI paint with old world textures and ancient tones on things abandoned. Discarded furniture, doors, cigar boxes and canvases previously spoken through; these are the surfaces that mesh message and materials.

Wildlife Sanctification is a series of images painted in the language of naturalists and spiritualists who lived before the earth was soiled by careless industry.

It is an apology and a tribute to the state of grace that is nature without human interference.
JoAnn Nava
Joann Nava