Born in Scone NSW. Joanna graduated from the City Art Institute with a BA in Visual Arts and a Graduate diploma in professional art studies.

Since then she has exhibited extensively throughout Australia with twenty solo exhibitions. She was the recipient of the Country Energy Prize and in 2009 was awarded the Central West Regional Artist award.

She has been awarded two residencies in Hill End. She received the people’s choice twice in the Paddington Art Prize. A finalist in the Fleurieu and the Norvill Landscape Painting Prize, she was highly commended.

Joanna lives and works at her property in Oberon.