M. Joyce Zeigler

Joyce’s passion for a painting career began in 1959 while taking her first art lessons from Nancy Ascher in Denton, MD. She subsequently followed a lifelong study of technique and beauty, taking classes, lessons and workshops throughout the United States and Canada, especially Scottsdale, Arizona, where she forged lifelong friendships with some of the greatest contemporary Plein Air teachers and painters. In turn, she shared what she had learned and her own teaching endeavors spanned over roughly forty years.. Despite traveling all over North America with her oil paints (en Plein Air), she got the most pleasure from depicting livestock, waterfowl and flowers reminiscent of her childhood.