About Joanne

Joanne Parent grew up on Cape Cod, surrounded by salt air and tidal marshes, before moving to Maine as a young girl. Maine’s forested shores and working harbors deepened her connection to the landscapes that would become central to her art.

In 1990, Joanne took to the sea. She spent nearly a decade sailing, earned her captain’s license, and raised her two sons on the water. Those years gave her an enduring familiarity with changing light, weather, and horizon.

In 2000, Joanne and her father, photographer Neal Parent, opened Parent Fine Art in Belfast. His black-and-white photographs and her luminous oil paintings offered two distinct views of the Maine coast.

Today, Joanne paints from her off-grid home on a pond and continues to work aboard yachts, returning to the sea that has shaped so much of her life and art. Portland Art Gallery is Joanne’s primary gallery, presenting her paintings to collectors drawn to her expressive vision of sea and landscape.