Joy Fahey Artist

I come from Manchester, UK and now live in Frigiliana, Malaga, Southern Spain. I always had a secret passion for art! At the age of 13 I won a painting competition which validated my passion. However, for many years I had to keep it under wraps until I couldn’t hold it in any longer. After a very sad and dramatic event in my early 20’s the only way I felt I could heal was to paint. With a new set of watercolours, I began my adventure into really learning to paint. From my own experience I know the value I gained from starting to paint. The English artist William Turner became my ‘mentor’ I would study his work with a vengeance, after many failed attempts at copying some of his paintings I slowly began to grasp and understand lights and shades, colour and contrasts, perspective, and composition and structuring a painting.