Since settling in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Victoria Moon Joyce has returned to her first career as an artist and has produced a number of landscapes and studies in acrylics of scenes around New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada. She is also exploring a new approach to portraiture she refers to as a narrative portrait – a construction of signs and images of a life lived beyond a mere representation of the body and face. These mixed media paintings portray a highly personal em-bodiment of ‘the face that maps' the journey of an individual's life.

Moon is a graduate of the Fine Arts program at University of Waterloo where she studied painting and drawing with Tony Urquhart, among others. Her art training led to a rich and varied teaching career that spanned the country and three decades of interdisciplinary work as an artist, musician, Outward Bound educator and cultural worker. Moon is deeply in love with her country of birth and her paintings reveal both a depth of memory and fresh insight. She knows her country well, having lived in six provinces and worked in every province and territory. Addicted to the beauty of context and the magnetic pull of memory, her paintings are anchored in a credible and powerful depiction of place.

Currently, Moon teaches a course on visual literacy, media and public discourse at UNB entitled “Images and Insights” for Renaissance College, Art Education for the teachers of the Mi'kmaq Maliseet Institute, and she is often a visiting lecturer for the docents at the Beaverbrook Gallery and members of the New Brunswick Visual Arts Education Association (NBVAEA) of which she is a member.