Artist Profiles

Joan Roster was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her interest in art was inspired since early childhood by family members and relatives who are also artists. She began her formal art training in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; and Wheaton College, Norton. After a lull in her painting her husband encouraged her to take up art again, and in l967 she began painting primarily with oils.

Since l975, she has had several solo shows and received many awards in local and regional shows. Her paintings are in many private and corporate collections in the U.S.

She has studied with nationally known artist and television personality Helen Van Wyk. Other artists that she has studied with are Marshall Woodside Joyce, Clement Micarelli, Rudy Colao, Ron Brake and Edward Harrigan. She taught out of her studio in Raynham, Massachusetts and has presented painting demonstrations and lectures at the invitation of art societies and civic groups.

Joan has also worked for several galleries that carried and sold her paintings over the years. She has received numerous Best of Show Awards with her oil paintings and just recently started with watercolors for which she has received some Best of Show Awards. For years, she displayed her work with the Duxbury Art Complex, Plymouth Art Show and Attleboro Museum Juried Shows.

Awards

l98l, M. Grumbacher, Inc. Award
l986, M. Grumbacher, Inc. Award
l987, Louise Doyle Memorial Award, Fall River Festival
l989, Honorable Mention, Fall River Festival
l989, lst Professional Division "Oil Painting" Milton Art Association, South Shore Plaza Exhibit
l990, Honorable Mention, Competitive Art Show, Attleboro Museum, Inc.