"Painting has certainly enriched my life. I find working with color
exciting. My object in painting is to combine what I have seen and
experienced in a pleasing way--to capture the essence of the subject and record
it simply."
-MJZ
M. Joyce Zeigler likes to paint waterfowl and land birds, flower gardens, country scenes and other views of nature as observed all her life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Having grown up on a farm, Joyce expresses a deep and abiding love of all things of the earth; farm buildings and animals, flowers, a freshly plowed field, the scurry of clouds across the sky; all of these things enter into her paintings. She paints on location whenever possible.
Joyce teaches oil painting in her country studio near Ridgely, Maryland. Her paintings can be found in private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Mrs. Zeigler has studied with various artists at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland and with Robert Abbett and Clyde Aspevig at the Scottsdale Artists School in Arizona. She attends workshops with Plein Air Painters of America.
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| Martha Hudson, Barbara Jablin, Roberta Seger, Mary Ekroos, Elizabeth Ruhl & Joyce Zeigler. Location: Edwards, CO in August, 2000 |
The Traveling Brushes
The Traveling Brushes came into being in 1984 when one of the artists was offered a cottage in Tylerton on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. The dwelling slept six, so she selected five other women to share the painting trip. These artists, at the conclusion of their stay, discovered that when they had been painting, critiquing, sharing, and laughing together, something special had been happening in their relationship. They were reluctant to let it go, and formed the Traveling Brushes for the purpose of making painting trips, sharing information, and occasionally having a show, and, hopefully, creating again the wonderful feeling of their Smith Island experience.
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| Joyce Zeigler on location in Yellowstone Nat'l Park, WY 8/05 |