Bones and Butterflies #3 by Jo-Ann Lowney
Oil on linen, 28 x 16"

Van Huyen's Dream,    Oil on linen,     36 x 48"

Dragonfly Love, Oil on panel, 12 x 12"

Jo-Ann Lowney was born in 1948 in New Bedford, Massachusetts.  After attending the Main College of Art in Portland, she spent four years studying classical painting with National Academician Frank Mason, at The Art Student’s League of New York.  She met her husband, painter Joel Coplin while attending the League in the 1980's.

Lowney has lived and worked in Mesa, Arizona since 1986.  In 1995 she was awarded the Visual Art Fellowship in two-dimensional Media by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and in 1996, an Artists Residency Grant by the Arizona Commission on the Arts for the mural project; A History of Superstition Mountain.  Lowney paints, sculpts and maintains the gardens of the historic artist community, East Side Art, where she and her husband and seven other artists work and live.