Kilarney Bay

acrylic on board

30 x 40 $3,500.00

Loon Lake

acrylic on board

24 x 30 $2,300.00

John Joy

John Joy believes that if you cannot draw…you cannot paint.  Drawing is John’s first passion and leads the way in his creation of his “back-alley architecture”.  Though he has traveled throughout Canada, the Northern Arctic, Europe and Asia, John’s favorite subject matter is the backyards of Toronto’s old neighbourhoods.   John focuses on painting the personality of a house, which he feels is most accurately portrayed from the backside.  The back of the house provides more shape and character, than the pristine front that the home owner wants to portray to the public.

Born in 1925, John Joy is one of the few artists today who devotes himself to painting on location, capturing our great Canadian landscape.  By painting on location, he is able to capture the subtle variations of light in his watercolours and acrylics.

As a founding member of the Society of Canadian Artists and an active member of the Toronto Arts & Letters Club, John exhibits his paintings in numerous private and public collections as well as with the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.
John’s work may be found among a long list of private, public and corporate collections such as; I.B.M., Shell Oil and the University of Toronto.

Art of the Matter is proud to exhibit John Joy’s paintings.