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Artist Statement: My appreciation for the visual arts began when I was a teenager, when I fell in love with so many wonderful artists from the Impressionist Era. My interest focused primarily on the women I observed in Figurative Art, i.e., those paintings in which people were included. Six years ago, while vacationing in Florida, I had enrolled in a Beginning Watercolor class at the Art School of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, which provided the introduction and basics I needed to begin painting in this medium I loved. Watercolor soon became a new niche for me. While many artists concentrate their art on landscapes, urban scenes, abstracts, and florals, the emphasis of my body of work is on figurative paintings. Most often, I still am attracted to the people on the paper, rather than to the scene itself, as they all seem to have something important to say to us! Follow Joan on Instagram: @joan_koppel