Golden Acres Art StudioGolden Acres Art StudioJoanna Verburg,born in 1971, is a part-time Freelance Artist in the Bay of Plenty Region. She primarly uses the art style of Expressionism but has adapted to other art styles such as Portraits and Landscapes. After taking a hiatus from art, She has rediscovered her passion for art after moving from the bustling city of Auckland to the quiet retreat of outer Tauranga.
All the sketches displayed on this website were made during her time in Elam School of Fine Arts. This is where her passion for the nude human body originates from. As you can tell from the featured sketches on this website, Joanna finds a unique kind of beauty in capturing people at their most vunerable.
Because of her versatility, she has evolved from exclusively creating charcoal sketches to elaborate:
Because of the hectic new life of being a mother, Joanna went on a hiatus from creating artwork, until now. Gathering inspiration from various sources such as:
Joanna finds beauty in everything she sees. Joanna delivers an understanding of human emotion through her abstract style and tells a story through each stroke of her paintbrush
A few of Joanna's inspirations will be linked below:
