A bit about me…

Four paintings on a wall, with two displayed on a wooden shelf. The paintings depict various subjects, including a vase with yellow flowers, a character with a dark background, and a detailed grid-style composition with multiple smaller images. The paintings are framed and leaning against the wall.

I am a painter and drawer based in London.

I love to create work that is rooted in drawing from life and explores themes of memory, loss, imagination and the stories we attach to objects. I am always aiming to make paintings that sit in the uncanny valley between memory and the imagination.

In my other life I work as an illustrator and a Cleanup Artist/2D designer for the Publishing and Animation Industries.

For commissions please get in touch at: joannamaeboyle@gmail.com

Awards

  • APT Mentorship Award 2026-27

Group Shows

  • Press the Buzzer to Enter, St Margarets House, 2026

  • See through, SafeHouse 1, 2026

  • Turps Off Site Show 2025-26, Thameside Gallery, 2026

  • Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, 2025

  • Drawn To London, St Margarets House, London, 2025

Solo Shows

  • Petitou Cafe, 2025

Education

  • Turps off-site Programme 2025-26

  • Royal Drawing School Spring Intensive 2022

  • MA Character Animation, Central St Martins

  • BA Illustration, Falmouth University

  • Art Foundation, Falmouth University