True North

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There’s something timeless about “What’s for Dinner,” a scene in modern-day Venice.

Though she was the child of a Navy officer often on the move, with art as her compass – and her mother’s guidance – Joy Jackson always felt at home. “Every place we went, the first thing my mother did was sign up as a docent at the local museum,” she says from her studio in Vero Beach. “When I was 8 years old we lived in Norfolk and I took the bus to the museum for art classes. She brought me the first time, then I went by myself. It was no surprise at all to be an art major in college because it was like I was geared for it.”

While art has always been Joy’s “true north,” her career has unfolded as a series of evolutions – banker, mother, photographer, watercolorist, baker and teacher – before she became a featured impressionist painter at the J.M. Stringer Gallery on Ocean Drive. 

Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Joy moved five times before the age of 12 when her mother settled the family in Miami. After attending the Notre Dame Academy for Girls where she was the art editor of the newspaper, she enrolled at Barry University.

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