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Joan Proudman Art

Photomontage Prints


Joan Proudman combines photographic imagery such as people and animals with digital illustration to achieve seamless compositions that are whimsical, humorous and meaningful. Her own photos as well as images from the public domain are combined and painstakingly edited with a digital pen and Photoshop. She's been working in this medium for 13 years and has never created an Ai image. 

As a child I loved to draw figures and create fantasy worlds. A career in dance and theater influenced the development of my dramatic style. 

Joan's Art has been printed on book and CD covers, in manuals, magazines and in online journals. Rite of Passage won Special 

Mention in Mozaik Philanthropy's National Art Competition (2020). Her images were featured in Shadow and Light Magazine's Surreal Issue, (2021) Maine Arts Journal (2019), and she received "Best in Show" for her portfolio in Stillpoint Arts Quarterly (2016). Most recently her work appeared in The Cafe Review out of Portland, Maine (2026). Joan's work is currently on display at Leslie Curtis Design in Camden, Leapin Lizards in Portland as well as Maine Artisans in Lincolnville, Maine. 

Joan's unique line of greeting cards can be purchased 

by visiting joanproudmanart.com 

Profile of woman with floral hair and butterfly against dark background.

Joan Proudman's Muli-Media creations are spectacular

    Abbie Read art installation

    I have been creating this wall installation since 2010. Its title is Library and it currently consists of eleven panels and is made up of many (over 150 at this point) individual book-like boxes that house artifacts, curiosities, my own art and other small constructions. I am drawn to the stained and abused surfaces of old and discarded objects, the stuff of previous lives and times and the rustier, the more ancient looking the better. Each individual piece is constructed by hand.

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