Joanne Mark

Joanne is an oil painter from Chester County, PA. She has combined her background in biological science with a need to express herself creatively through oil painting for the past 15 years. She has a passion for nature, natural environments and the creatures that inhabit them, including arctic animals and birds. Knowing the survival challenges these species are facing, with loss of habitats due to global warming, has inspired has to portray them in paint.
Ginny lives near Valley Forge National Historical Park and combine hiking for exercise with her interest in birding photography. She loves the challenge of finding different bird species in various environments, identifying them, and capturing their character in a photograph, especially when it’s a particularly quirky pose. She also gets a thrill when she locks eyes with a bird and interacts in a special intimate moment. Joanne sometimes find birds that seem just as curious about her as she is about them. She does this field work to collect reference photos for my bird paintings.