Joyce Chambers is a native of Baytown, Texas and is the youngest of a family of five. Her artistict talent was regonized early in life, and her creative efforts of elementary school were nurtured and inspired by an art teacher (Mr. Alvin Norwood, Carver High School, Baytown, Texas), where she as a 4th grader would render drawings that she observed 11th and 12th graders doing with almost flawless accuracy.
Chambers' unifying theme in her work is the celebration of life: The joys, the sorrows, and everything in-between. Her profession as a social worker, as well as vivid childhood memories, has giver her exhaustless experiences from which she derives inspiration. Other artistic influences have come from other artists such as Synthia St. James, Jacob Lawrence, and Romare Bearden.
Chambers' range of versitility extends from mixed media, drawing, watercolor, and pastel, to paperclay and collage. Viewers of her work are often awe-struck by her unique visual statements, abstracts and distinctive style of color infused collage accents.
Chambers' art affilliations have been: The Colored Pencil Society of America, The International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artist, The National Collage Society, and Allied Artist of America.
She hopes to continue to explore new arenas of expression that will positively touch all that view her work