Blackwolf from the Fac-7-series oil on canvas, 48" x 48"

Joan de Bot is a Dutch, internationally exhibited artist who works mostly from her studio in Brooklyn, NY. As an artist she has a love for working with patterns. She started her art career in the late 70's as a painter of systematical art, which is influenced by the autonomy of color and its development in space.

Her Fac7-series has been an extensive project that she began three decades ago with the painting 'Faculteit 7', a large 52x104 painting, which she has continued in her current body of work. The painting is based on color variation schemes: patterns emerge repetitively in new formats.

Joan is now creating a great variety of color designs, which she brings to the attention of companies, architects and interior designers, who might be interested to incorporate these designs in their projects and produce them as textiles or prints on various surfaces. The Netherland Textile Museum (Tilburg, NL) produces a small selection as tapestry.

Through the years Joan has also painted and exhibited landscapes and cityscapes inspired by the countries she visited on her extensive travels, like Cyprus, Scotland, Australia and italy. She has now painted a series of cityscapes of the vanishing, rough, industrial elements indigenous of Williamsburg, NY, which have recently been exhibited in the Gloria Kennedy Gallery, DUMBO and the Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg,Brooklyn, NY.