Joan Terese Hayes

Joan Terese Hayes is an artist and art dealer living and painting North of Burlington, Vermont on the Lake Champlain Islands.

Born
Burlington, Vermont
November 6, 1959.

Education
Saint Michael's College
Colchester, Vermont
Studio Arts 1978-1980

Daytona Beach Community College
Daytona Beach, Florida
Fine Art 1980

Mississippi University for Women
Columbus, Mississippi
Interior Design, Fine Art 1982

10 Facts About Joan Hayes

1.  Joan studied fine arts education at three different colleges.  
Saint Michael's College
Colchester, Vermont
Studio Arts 1978-1980

Daytona Beach Community College
Daytona Beach, Florida
Fine Art 1981

Mississippi University for Women
Columbus, Mississippi
Interior Design, Fine Art 1982

2.  Joan was was not allowed to use her left hand in Elementary School. 

As a child, Joan was forbidden from using her left hand.  Attending an elementary Catholic school, around 1970 she was reprimanded repeatedly for using her left hand.  After Joan's mother Andre, a first generation Quebec immigrant, reprimanded the Nuns, Joan was allowed to continue using her left hand.   As crazy as that seems, around the year 1960, the left hand was not considered proper.  Primary use of the left was dissuaded, scolded verbally, and finally whipping with rulers on the wrist of the wrong hand.  Left hand discouragement is a forgotten, odd fear of differences, that only 55 years removed from the enforcement.    

3.  Joan's first exposure to art was a 13th birthday gift offer of painting or piano classes.  
Joan was offered painting classes or the option of piano lessons for her 13th birthday.  Joan chose painting lessons.  After the 6 weeks, she continued purchasing lessons herself from her art instructor, Mrs. Zimmerman, a German painter.

4.  Joan painted under a different name, Joan Child, during her marriage between 1981-2002.
Joan Hayes at 22, married in 1981, changes her name to Joan Terese Child, also, Joan Child, Joan T Child, JT Child and J. Child to sign and label her artworks.  

Joan Hayes,  during her original maiden namesake 1959-1981, with her first creative decade, a period from shortly after November 6th of 1972, a  gift of painting classes at 13, to her marriage August 15th 1981, Joan produced works under the name Joan and signed under iterations, J.Hayes, Joan Terese Hayes and Hayes.

Joan Hayes (1972 to 1981) Age 13 until marriage at 21.

1972  Her early 1970's work are rare, only few childhood drawings.  Deer in a Forest an ink on paper, is the oldest known piece of Joan's to be documented.  

1974-1978

Purple Lake Champlain, oil on canvas is from ca. 1977, when Joan was taking art classes with her first instructor, Mrs. Zimmerman, a German artist and instructor, who Joan describes in the Paint and Palette Podcast, shedding some info on this purple, impressionistic, purple sunset painting of the Burlington, Vermont shore and the New York Adirondacks,  "Mrs. Zimmerman used always encourage us to add purple to our paintings.  And would sometimes come in, to fix our paintings, usually by adding purple."

1979 Copper Plate - Bald Eagle Etching.  There is a copper plate from an etching the Joan did at Saint Michael's college in Colchester, Vermont that is ca. 1979, when Joan was a freshman or sophomore at Saint Michael's.  

Joan Terese Child (1981-2002) Joan marries and changes her name to Joan Child. 

Joan's work is displaced throughout the country in the 1980's as Joan Terese Child, marrying John Child, while he was studying at Embry Riddle in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Joan was at Daytona Beach Community College studying art.  As she took on her new name, Joan Terese Child, she also married into the airforce and began relocating several times through the mid 1980's.

Around 1983 the Child's relocated to Columbus Air Force Base in Columbus, Mississippi, Joan enrolled at the Mississippi University for Women, studying art and interior design.  

In 1985 they relocated to McGuire Air Force Base in Trenton, New Jersey.  Joan taught local painting classes while there.  She was also exposed to custom framing for the first time, as the air force base had it's own frame shop, where Joan Child was hired.  

6.  Joan opens the art gallery JT Art & Frame (1989)

This experience with custom framing, helped her eventually open her art gallery and frame shop  in 1989,    JT Art & Frame, an art gallery, frame shop and interior design company, located in Amherst, NH that serviced Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.  

In 1991, JT Art & Frame was expanded to 1000 square feet of open exhibition, studio and framing space. 

7. Joan Takes Back her Maiden Name (November 2002 to present)
When Joan returned to her maiden, she didn't fully understand the setback it would have on her career, she created a market for herself as an artist under Joan Terese Child, for over twenty years, and was one of the more prominent artists in Southern New Hampshire.  "People were confused, they didn't know how to find me.  Many people didn't even know, some knew, I dropped the Child, but didn't know my maiden name, and others thought I took on another name and remarried, which didn't happen.  If I had known now, what changing my name would have done, I don't know what I'd do, I was just so firm on taking me name back, it didn't even occur to me at the time. “ 

8.  The first artist Joan started independently representing and promoting Trish Hurley as her artist agent.
Joan and Trish Hurley have been working together for over fifteen years.  Trish received her MFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth and her BFA in Painting from the Swain School of Design.  Around

When Joan met Trish Hurley, she was a picture framer, and exhibiting her oil paintings regionally.  Joan currently has 12 oil paintings by Trish Hurley in her art collection.  

9.  JT Art & Frame focuses on representing other artists, become Fine Leaf

JT Art & Frame eventually transitioned in an artist agency, representing other artists, rebranding as Fine Leaf in 2010, focusing primarily on artist representation and promotion, while continuing to paint and sell her own works throughout the country.  The earliest Joan started representing an artist was ca. 2003 with Trish Hurley

10.  Joan had $14,000 of art stolen from her in the 1990's at an art exhibit for a local charity.
None of the pieces were recovered and nobody was charged.