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. 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.

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 complements her studio work with teaching art education courses at various institutions in Nunavut, New Brunswick and Ontario. She specializes in teacher education with First Nations, Inuit and Metis educators and is a member of the Canadian Society for Education Through Art and the New Brunswick Visual Arts Education Associations (CSEA and NBVAEA).

Currently, Moon is preparing for a solo exhibition entitled “Rivers and Tides” opening March 16th and runs to April 6th 2012 at Gallery 78. The theme for this show explores some of the iconic locations of New Brunswick with an eye to reflect back some of the fragile beauty of this province by illustrating the same or similar scene in different sizes and focus.