Biographies > Joan Duffy Nabb

Joan Duffy Nabb’s media is watercolour but she also does pen and ink drawings such as The Smock in the TAG collection.  Her fellow artist and friend, Cathy Cribbs, has written, “ Joan is very perceptive about people and the landscape around her; so every painting is a statement about herself”. She began painting in 1962, taught and encouraged by watercolourist Sheila Langlois.  Joan also studied with other Canadian artists including Alex Millar, John Hall, Carl Schaefer, Denis Cliff, Gustav Weisman, Zoltan Szabo, George Forgie and Mary Schneider.  Joan has always been at the forefront in promoting art in the region.  She was president of NOAA for four years, at a time, Cathy Cribbs writes, when there was a need for someone to revitalise local art clubs and interest in the organization.  Joan was that person.  She also was convenor of the Cobalt Art Colony for many years.  In 1974 she received an Ontario Arts Council grant in 1974 for artists of promise and achievement; and since then she has exhibited in many juried shows and received several awards and honourable mentions.1

1. For further details see D. Green, A Portrait. 50 years in the making, A History of the Northern Ontario Art Association, 2009