Education
After high school and a couple of years of university I enrolled at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr School of Art) for one year. Following that I studied art education at the University of British Columbia. At UBC I studied design, painting and printmaking, graduating in 1969. I've taught both children and adults art and crafts over the years. I've taken classes at MISSA (Xane St. Philip) and with other artists (Diane Young, Marnie Ward, Dorothy Field, Suzy Raxlen).
From 2013 through 2016 I was part of Bill Porteous’s Wednesday Abstract Art Group. Since then, I’ve taken painting, drawing and collage courses at VISA and UVic. (Tony Bounsall, Barrie Szekely, Leah McInnis, and Wendy Welch.) From 2019 to 2021 I was a member of the Gage Gallery Artist’s Collective.
EXHIBITIONS
Craft Shows (papier maché works), 1995 and 1996
Papier Maché works show at Fran Norris Gallery, 1997
Group Show with Vancouver Island School of Art, 2000
Group Show at Martin Batchelor Gallery, prints and chine collé works 2004
Group Shows with Wednesday Afternoon Art Group, Selkirk Gallery, 2014 and 2015
Abstract Four, group show at Dales Gallery, Victoria 2016
Participant in Fernwood Art Stroll, June 2016, 2018 and 2019, 2021, 2022
Solo show at Fairfield Community Place, December 2018
Fifth Year Anniversary group show at Gage Gallery, July 2019
Freefall, group show at Gage Gallery, September 2019
The Long Way Home, group show at Gage Gallery, February 2020
Out of the Silence, group show at the Gage Gallery, July 2020
What Emerges, solo show at the Gage Gallery, October 2020
Dreamscapes, group show at Gage Gallery, January 2021
Xchanges annual group show, December 2021
Art Passage show, March 2022
Xcelebrate, annual group show at Xchanges Gallery, December 2022
CONTACT
Email: joannapettit@gmail.com
Phone: 250-386-0826 or 250-891-3919 (mobile)