Joyce Hempstead (she/her/hers) is a Boston-based, representational painter in oils, whose work explores ordinary moments among people and their environments. Joyce studied privately with RI artist John Huszer as a child, concentrating on anatomy and the figure, and later earned an MFA (Boston University). After a career in design and communications, she returned to the easel in 2022, taking courses at the Elliot School in Jamaica Plain and at the Museum of Fine Arts with artist-teachers Karl Stephen and Justin Life. Her work appears regularly in juried exhibits in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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My paintings invite viewers to experience anew something they might have forgotten: the brilliance of chill April sunlight on a winter-bare tree; or missed in passing: a child reading a book in absent solitude. I use a broad and vibrant palette, looking for the unseen moment to resonate with memory and experience. While my favorite subject is the human form (a mysterious and a mechanical wonder!), I am drawn to any subject that reveals something of ourselves and our world.
At its foundation my art is a celebration of our intimate connection to our environments and each other, often in their most ordinary manifestations.