Joanne Parent grew up on Cape Cod, surrounded by salt air and the shimmer of tidal marshes, before moving to Maine as a young girl. There, among forested shores and working harbors, she discovered the elemental beauty that would become the heart of her art.

The sea beckoned, and in 1990 she answered—sailing for nearly ten years, earning a captain’s license, and gathering luminous memories of sky, wave, and wind. She raised her two sons on the water, their lives shaped by tides, sails, and the ever-changing horizon.

In 2000, she and her father, Neal Parent, opened Parent Fine Art in Belfast—a gallery where their art converses across medium: his black-and-white photographs, her radiant oil studies.

Now, tucked into a studio at her office grid home on a pond, Joanne continues rendering the transcendent beauty of sea and landscape, her works gracing distinguished galleries worldwide. And once again, she finds herself drawn back to the sea—working aboard yachts, returning full circle to the element that has always been both her teacher and muse.