About Joan Boryta's Watercolors

My Philosophy

As you will know immediately when you see my work,

I am an avid watercolorist! I just love the spontaneity of the medium. You never know what is going to happen, and after you master the medium, the surprises are usually very good.

I like to work with lots of water keeping things moist although the procedure; that way you can get soft and hardedges which make the painting more interesting. It’s best to keep in mind all the time you are painting that you are not trying to reproduce the “picture”; you are putting yourself in there with all your emotions and visual colors and painting the piece from your heart,, not your eyes.

Then when someone sees the work, a chord strikes in his own heart that links the viewer to the artist.

Meet Joan Boryta

A native of New England, the mountains and valleys of rich green, hillside farms, and rolling streams became Joan's palette. She lusted for more material to paint and ventured to Ireland and its lush greens of a different temperature.

She experienced two rounds of being “artist in residence” in Cill Rialaig, producing many exceptional Irish landscapes. And then, a new direction and Joan found herself on the beautiful Caribbean island

of Barbados for ten years of very

productive watercolor painting.

Joan now resides in Seal Beach with yet another palette change...subtle color, white light,

and a more flat terrain.

She teaches and quickly turns those who think the medium is unforgiving and just too hard into seeing and believing that it's not so. It’s such a great way to live, always seeing beauty in the surroundings and being able to turn that beauty into a lasting and priceless piece of history.