Joan Elliott is a Richmond, Virginia based painter whose work is rooted in landscape imagery, with recent projects incorporating geometric structures and patterning. Working in oil through a process of layering and revision, she develops compositions that hold a quiet tension between organic growth and constructed space.

Elliott’s work has been exhibited throughout the Mid-Atlantic and internationally, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA), American University Museum (Washington, DC), Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA), International Museum of Art and Sciences (McAllen, TX), Taubman Museum of Art (Roanoke, VA), Branch Museum of Architecture and Design (Richmond, VA), Virginia Museum of History and Culture (Richmond, VA), The Art Museum SUNY Potsdam (Potsdam, NY), and Piedmont Arts Museum (Martinsville, VA). She has exhibited extensively with Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA) and Galerie de Bellefeuille (Montreal, QC). Her work is held in numerous corporate and private collections, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Federal Reserve Bank, Markel Corporation, Capital One, and Bank of America. She was the recipient of a Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grant, and a 2025 resident at the Cité internationale des arts (Paris, France). Elliott received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a longtime instructor at the VMFA Studio School.