Medium: Encaustic, Oils, Acrylics
Studio: 13612 62nd Ave NE
Phone: 425.821.0841
Website
Joy E. Hagen grew up in Seattle, Washington, graduating
from Queen Anne High School and Western Washington
University. An early childhood in the Philippines and
Panama and endless summers camping in the woods of the
Pacific Northwest with a forester for a father and a
teacher for a mother provided rich opportunities to
experience and explore vistas that truly opened up the
imagination of a child for whom art was an everyday part
of her life.
She spent 15 years custom designing and painting canvas
floor cloths, table runners, placemats and walls and six
years as an art docent with the Lake Washington School
District. A knee injury ended the
down-on-your-hands-and-knees rug painting career and
inspired her pursuit of a career in fine art, taking
classes with various local and regional artists.
Currently an active member of the Eastside Association
of Fine Artists and the Kirkland Arts Center, Joy E.
Hagen resides in Kirkland and enjoys painting commission
pieces for local clientele, is a resident artist at
Musings in Mill Creek Town Center, and has exhibited in
local group and solo shows as well as numerous juried
art shows. Her most recent honor was the 2007 City of
Kenmore purchase award for one of her encaustic pieces.
Painting in both acrylics and oils, Joy often utilizes
techniques learned from her years of decorative and faux
painting. More recently, her movement into encaustic
painting has placed her squarely in her element, with
the beautiful Pacific Northwest as her inspiration in
the creation of her organic “put-together” pieces. From
deep, subdued colors to surprisingly vibrant patchworks
of brilliant colors, Joy E. Hagen’s paintings reflect
the variety of mood created and influenced by the ever
changing weather of this area. Color and texture are
favored elements in her artwork that is set in the
context of the beauty that surrounds our everyday lives
in this wondrous Pacific Northwest---art that says “this
is where I live.”
