Joanna Logue creates richly layered, color-saturated paintings inspired by the landscapes of coastal Maine. Originally from Australia, she relocated to Mt. Desert Island in 2017, where she now lives in a small village surrounded by woods, marshes, and mountains. Through years of extensive hiking and close observation, she has developed an intimate relationship with the island’s quieter, less-traveled terrain.

Rather than depicting grand, panoramic vistas in the tradition of 19th-century Romantic painters, Logue works from within the landscape itself—immersed in dense forest undergrowth, the reflective surfaces of boggy ponds, and the shifting hues of seasonal change. Her paintings inhabit a dynamic space between abstraction and representation, echoing the influence of artists such as John Marin and John Walker.

Logue describes her aim as creating paintings that are “tough and innovative, but soft and seductive at the same time.” Using a range of tools and techniques, she activates every part of the canvas, often allowing forms and color to extend beyond the frame. The result is work that feels immersive and expansive, reminding viewers that each painting captures only a fragment of a much larger natural world.

Joanna Logue was born in the Hunter Valley in North South West Australia. She graduated from the City Art Institute with a BA in Visual Arts in 1986 and a Graduate Diploma in Painting in 1987. Since then, she has had 22 solo exhibitions and has exhibited extensively in major cities throughout Australia and internationally. Logue received the Country Energy Prize for Landscape Painting in 2006 and the Central West Regional Artist Award in 2009. She has also been selected as a finalist in the Fleurieu Art Prize, the Norvill Landscape Painting Prize, the Paddington Landscape Painting Prize, and the NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize. In 2014, she was awarded a residency in Bruny Island, Tasmania. Her work is in significant corporate, private, and public collections. Logue lives and works on Mount Desert Island in Maine and from her studio at Essington Park, Australia.