Joanna Dehn Beresford Artwork

Art of the Day: Sun and Water - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Big sun, rich foliage, flowers, and blue water with construction cranes against a light sky. Tropics and industry.

Art of the Day: Indian Trail, Palm Springs - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Inspired by a photo of a friend's home, and sweet memories of moments shared in this lovely desert bungalow. Acrylic, chalk pastel, colored pencil, and ink on canvas.

Art of the Day: The Guardian - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Woman holding a flower. Reading table behind her with books. Large cat or gargoyle nearby. A delicate branch hangs at the edge of the frame. Lots of deep greens, blues, white, pink, black. Unexpectedly moody and Gothic..

Art of the Day: Champion - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Athletic female figure sketched in charcoal, painted with acrylic, against dark blue sky. Yellow sun and star behind her, a yellow, melting planet or medallion in her hand. Potted plants of deep red, pencil squiggles.A work of mythological figure on wood.

Art of the Day: Peace on Earth I - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Full white moon hangs over dark blue and black mountians, scattered fir trees, silver lines.

Art of the Day: Mother and Child Dream - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Head and shoulders of mother and child against blue sea or sky, narrow islands, small houses, telephone poles, ladder or windows. Pale blue, pink, white, green and brown. Acrylic and pen on rough wood.

Art of the Day: City Beach - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. A city skyline and sandy beach overlook blue waters. There is a wash of blue sky. The city buildings are sketched, spare figures are scattered along the beach. The painting on paper is centered on a wooden square painted black. Like a window, a computer or television scre...

Art of the Day: Oh, the challenge... - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. A dark-haired woman and a blonde little girl on a beach. The woman's back is to the viewer, she is in the lower left hand corner, and we see only her shoulders and head. The little girl, wearing a green and pink ruffled bathing suit and glittering pink sunglasses faces th...

Art of the Day: The Frontiersman - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Portrait of a man against deep black background. He wears a striking blue jacket, outlined in paler blue squiggles. White shirt collar appears to be melting slightly, as does his face, actually, but just a bit. He is fair skinned with hints of pink lips, cheeks and shadow...

Art of the Day: Behind the Yellow Curtain - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Mother and child against blue sky, flowers at her feet, a green and yellow curtain beside her. She wears a long red skirt, yellow blouse and the child wears blue. Oil, acrylic, charcoal, crayon on stretched canvas.

Art of the Day: The Ceremony - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Seated girl, her face centered on the canvas. She is looking over her right shoulder at the viewer. There's a swirling profusion of color - yellow, red, faint blues and greens, and splashes of black - surrounding her. Flowers, lanterns, or some other sort of decoration ap...

Art of the Day: Me Too, a Collaboration - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Three female figures moving towards a dark figure framed in doorway in a salon. Inspired by Velasquez' "Las Meninas". Rich, swirling color and texture, Baroque mood. Oil on canvas. Collaboration with Mark Rafter.

Art of the Day: Pilgramage - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. three figures, women, crossing a golden, brown, desert-like landscape.Wearing robes and scarves of distinct colors: green, pink and orange. Faces shadowy blue and somewhat obscured, heads bowed. A red gold sun appears to be melting in the upper right hand corner, as at th...

Art of the Day: Data to Observe and Think About - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Blue figure observing blue sphere on a wooden table. Pale yellow background, green leaves and red blossoms grow along the side. Inspired by a friend's interest in data.

Art of the Day: Mother, Daughter, Books, Sky - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Figures of 2 women under a bookshelf, against changeable blue sky, bright sun, yellow flowers.

Art of the Day: Josephine - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Inspired by a photo of my mother. Portrait of a woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat with flowers. Sketched in charcoal with soft pinks, purples, whites and yellows. A frothy ruffle around her neck. She is elegant, mysterious yet sharply defined.

Art of the Day: Various Moons - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Various yellow moons hang in a midnight sky, over green hills and telephone poles, framed by dark flowers. Acrylic, charcoal, pastel on canvas board.

Art of the Day: Mother and Son - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Silhouette of mother and son against mixed blue sky, at the preciice of dark ground. Acrylic and pastel on stretched canvas.

Art of the Day: Tesla 1 - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Quick sketch. Acrylic, charcoal and pencil on paper and canvas board. Blue, black, white and light touches of yellow.

Art of the Day: The Mathematician - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Inspired by a photograph of my grandfather, Max Dehn, this is a portrait that captures the sepia tone feel of an early photograph. There is a ghostly quality to the face and figure as if he's disappearing - or appearing through the paint and wood. He emerges in a world of...

Art of the Day: La Flor - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Portrait of an elegant woman. She's bathed in a golden light, before a wash of twilight blue. Her hair is swept up high, shoulders bare, and she's turned slightly away, looking into the near distance. Lips are pink, a rose behind her ear, and a lush blossom at her right s...

Art of the Day: View From Here - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. View through window, lace curtains, to the beach and a young bather. Hands on hips, golden curls, pink-framed sunglasses and blue sea and sky beyond.

Art of the Day: Mother and Child in the Garden - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Young mother and baby on a park bench, surrounded by lush color - flowers, water, sky and an ivory tower. Inspired by Monet and memory. Acrylic and Oil on canvas.

Art of the Day: The Sky Within - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Within a rectangular frame a woman whose face is like the sky looks over a glowing landscape of gold, brown, green and black. Her expression is intense, dreamy, mysterious, reflective. She wears a brilliant headscarf of green and red, and splashes of abstract flowers hove...

Art of the Day: Tesla 2 - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Charcoal and acrylic sketch that approximates Nikolai Tesla. Inspired by a photo of the inventor, engineer and futurist. I am drawn to the geometry and drama of his features.

Art of the Day: Notebook: Doug listening to music - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. sketch, friend, colors, notebook

Art of the Day: Into the Woods - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Two female figures, possibly mother and daughter, walking away from the viewer and into a snowy woods. A pale sun shines through the dark trees, and there's a blue pond, some red flowers, and an old wooden fence in the scene. The child wears a red winter coat, and the mot...

Art of the Day: Mother and Daughter - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. two women, black silhouettes against pale blue sky and mixed brown background, red dress, blue dress, looking at each other.

Art of the Day: Doug listening to music - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. pencil sketch on paper, profile of man with eyes closed, listening. Notebook held together by string. Ambient light.

Art of the Day: Rafter's Owl - Joanna Dehn Beresford Available now for purchase. Collaboration with Mark Rafter, who sculpted and sketched the owl, initiated light and color, and allowed me to continue with more paint, pencil and pastels. Owl perches on a cluttered desk in an office/studio, narrow window behind. Dark, rich color. Suggestive of Poe, Ch...