Our dear sister passed this week. Here is her obituary and a powerpoint presentation of photographs of her through the years.
Debra Lynn Quillman
Wilmot Gary Quillman (1935-1964)
Wilmot was Joann’s husband and the father of Gail, Steven and Debra. He was a pilot who flew agricultural applications. He died in a plane crash, when Gail and her siblings were young children.
Ebook for Joann’s paintings is now available
The ebook is now available. You can find it at:
http://www.blurb.com/b/8891716-the-paintings-of-joann-e-quillman?ebook=672124
New book
Gail and I have finished our new book on the gardens. Once again, we published it at http://www.blurb.com.
Blurb provides the opportunity to publish the book in many formats:
- ebook
- soft cover and hardcover tradebook
- soft cover and hardcover photobook
- hardcover with wrapper photobook.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Malcolm and Gail Vidrine
http://www.blurb.com/b/9188917-the-cajun-prairie-gardens?ebook=684098
The book is done
The Paintings of Joann E. Quillman (2018) by Gail, Steven and Debra is available on Blurb.com (both image-wrapped softcover and hardcover): http://www.blurb.com/b/8891716-the-paintings-of-joann-e-quillman .
An ebook is also available at Blurb.com: http://www.blurb.com/ebooks/672124-the-paintings-of-joann-e-quillman .
City Park Lake
Jennifer Cassanova provided this image of her Quillman painting. It is unusual in that Joann signed the painting with her complete signature. Again water in the image shows both movement and reflection of the surrounding landscape–two features of Joann’s work adding to its depth and sense of presence.
Joann as seamstress
This photograph of Joann portrays one of her projects as a seamstress. She made the blouse. She made many bridesmaid’s dresses for friends and family. As such, she was an accomplished seamstress. She loved art in all kinds of media, so we should not be surprised at this interest in producing elegant clothing. She had a lot of energy, and thus she spent many days and nights doing more than one project at a time.
Proof of new book and word of new great grandchild for Joann
We have received the proof of the book on Joann’s paintings on the same day that Caroline and Paul delivered their first child, Charlotte Rose. We would love to put pictures of her online, but …
We will however put pictures of the proof book cover and a page layout. We hope that the book will be completed by the end of the month and available. We are doing some editing and have luckily found another painting within our reach. Looks like it will run about 80 pages. This is a photo book emphasizing her paintings and a few drawings. Oil, watercolor, and other media were used on canvas, paper, sandpaper and Masonite. We are still looking for more paintings as she did more than 100.
In October, we are planning to present the book at a booth in the library during the community event at LSU Eunice.
Endangered Species
No other painting appeared to give Joann so much pleasure. Her laugh was contagious when she showed the painting. Since most people were dieting or severely cutting back on sweets, this display of elegant, sweet deserts was a disappearing form of art as well as disappearing source of palatine/gustatory pleasure, disappearing much like many of the rare plants and animals on the planet that have been declared ‘endangered species.’ The name referred to this growing fact of life.
This is another one of her paintings that revealed the world as she saw it–her art came from simple experiences that moved her. Someone must have said something funny about this display of sweet and festive deserts, and she connected that to the photograph and in the end, the painting.
Unfortunately, this is another image taken with a low resolution digital camera. We hope to get a much better image that can really display the details of this work.
Gail Vidrine, Steven Quillman, Debra Quillman and Malcolm Vidrine
Art show in Opelousas in late 2004
Joann participated in numerous art shows and won numerous awards. Here are a series of photos from the last major show where she showed a good number of her works. She is already ill, and I think she is undergoing chemotherapy.
Displayed all around the room are some of Joann’s favorites, including a 3 of her Giverny paintings, Endangered Species, Yellow Gate, Poppies on the way to Chester, Spring Lake, Daffodils, A white sailing ship, and View from Ponce’s Villa. At a show, Joann was in her element. A few more paintings, and you get a sense of her body of work at a show.
The photos were shot with my old Mavica–a low resolution digital camera (high tech for me at that time). But these photos provide excellent evidence of Joann’s place in our community as an artist and a teacher.
The Art of Joann E. Quillman 