joy fahey artist
I come from Manchester, UK and now live in Frigiliana, Malaga, Southern Spain. I
always had a secret passion for art! At the age of 13 I won a painting
competition which validated my passion. However, for many years I had to keep it
under wraps until I couldn’t hold it in any longer. After a very sad and
dramatic event in my early 20’s the only way I felt I could heal was to paint.
With a new set of watercolours, I began my adventure into really learning to
paint. From my own experience I know the value I gained from starting to paint.
The English artist William Turner became my ‘mentor’ I would study his work with
a vengeance, after many failed attempts at copying some of his paintings I
slowly began to grasp and understand lights and shades, colour and contrasts,
perspective, and composition and structuring a painting.
