Joanne Last is a highly popular and successful painter with many professional accolades and corporate commissions under her belt. She clearly has a great command of paint and its various vocabularies, being equally at home with abstract expressionist and geometic styles as well as realistic seascapes and landscapes. Her skilful and sensitive use of the medium of paint lends itself to these subjects as she is able to make subtle adaptations so that a few simple marks may be easily rendered as sky, cliffs or translucent ocean wave…