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Born August 17, 1953 in Brooklyn N.Y.After leaving school, Jo-Anne pursued a career as a horsewoman and spent 20 years riding, training and caring for thoroughbred racehorses. She began sculpting horses and animals in 1985 and had several successful shows and commissions before leaving the U.S. to live in Anguilla in the British West Indies.
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Jo-Anne has lived and worked on Anguilla as an artist since 1992. Finding sculpture a difficult medium for island visitors to transport home she started painting with acrylic and latex using large canvas or board and eventually evolved into painting wall murals. While painting a mural for a local restaurant she discovered the computer. After learning and experimenting for about a year she purchased a computer, invested in a “Wacom” tablet and “Metacreations Painter” an excellent fine art paint program and began creating virtual art.
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Jo-Anne Mason at Savannah Gallery opening.
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Jo-Anne’s first digital show was held at Savannah Gallery in The Valley, Anguilla with popular results. Not only did she sell the majority of the images on display, she also met her future husband. He had been working with video production and designing websites and their talents fit perfectly together. They have since formed a company, Netconcepts and from their studio on the Sea Rocks in Island Harbour produce websites, videos, print materials and promotional aids.
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The James Brady Professional Achievement Award created by Jo-Anne Mason.
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Occasionally Jo-Anne returns to conventional art and has had two shows at Savannah Gallery with watercolors and oils. But her real love is digital art and because so much of their work is seen on the Internet she is am able to improve and expand, learning new programs and moving into different creative areas. Animation makes websites more dynamic and it is her latest quest in the virtual world.
The images that make up the series “Seven Days on Anguilla” were digitally created using the program “Painter”. She produced them as images printed on paper and were so popular she decided to write a short description of the scenes and put them together into a small book. This book now sells at selected shops around Anguilla. She is working on her second storybook, this one a children’s book called “Paddy the goat that saved Rainbow Island” due to be published in 2002.
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Jo-Anne Mason
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The West Virginia Furturity Award 1991
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