Joey Hamill

Biography

Growing up in North Quincy with my sisters and brother, I was always busy collecting snakes and salamanders, and polliwogs to feed my turtle.  I didn’t know then that I liked to draw, but now I draw instead of collecting.

I majored in Government in college, and work on the budgets for the VA hospitals.  Along the way we had five children, most of whom live near me now.  I have lots of playtime with grandchildren, and am a volunteer ESL tutor for adults, and a homework tutor for children, at the West Medford Community Center and the Brooks school.  I’ m happy to have a found a new life here by the river, these last nine years, after twenty five years in Scituate raising a family by the ocean. I’ve taken art classes many places and still have lots more to learn.

Statement

Watercolor, pastel, photography, and drawing all give me a way of describing the world I see around me.  People, places, things, happenings and the feelings they generate as I look around me, make me want to make a record of them somehow.  Lately I’ve been attempting portrait painting.  I’ve taken classes many places, and learn from each one.  So I continue.