Park to showcase local artist's work
Lake Pueblo State Park will exhibit the work of local artist Marjorie Joy at the visitor center art gallery from Feb. 17 to April 23.
The exhibit of Joy's botanical drawings will start with an open house from 4 to 6 p.m. Feb. 17 at the park’s visitor center.
Joy is a botanical artist living in Pueblo West. Since 1991, she has painted detailed, intricate portraits of native Colorado and Rocky Mountain plants in watercolor and other color media. Her current projects include a series of illustrations of wild roses native to southern Colorado and an exploration of block printing for botanical art.
“Artists have been painting plants for centuries, for reasons both decorative and scientific. I paint plants out of fascination for the details and relationships that are found in the natural world, especially in the plants native to the Rocky Mountain region,” Joy said. “This is my way of saying, ‘Look what I found! Come see this!’
“Wild roses in ditches and trees along the river are as beautiful and fascinating to me as peonies and orchids are to many others,” she said. “The secrets of the universe are here in these leaves and stems and seed pods. I invite you to look for them and see for yourself.”
She studied botanical illustration at the Denver Botanic Gardens School of Botanical Illustration. Joy earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Colorado and an associate degree in advertising design from the Colorado Institute of Art.
Joy’s botanical watercolors have been shown in many locations, including the Denver Botanic Gardens, the Missouri Botanical Gardens, the New York State Museum, and the Loveland Museum & Gallery. She has shown her botanical art at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo, the Pueblo Convention Center, the Gallery in La Vita, and Points West Gallery in Fort Garland.
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