Joan Hutt
Joan Hutt (1913-85) was a British artist who spent most of her career in North Wales. She studied fine art at the Camberwell College of Art and then at the Clapham School of Art. She then spent a period painting in Paris, followed by two years in Frankfurt.

She returned to the UK in the 1930s, exhibiting her paintings at the Bank of England Arts Society, where she won a number of prizes. She moved to Criccieth, North Wales, in 1949. After she had brought up a family of 5 children, she returned full-time to painting in 1963. She regularly tutored on landscape painting and founded the Criccieth W.E.A. Art class in 1965. She was co-founder of the Porthmadog Art Club and a member of the “North Wales Group” of artists which included Sir Kyffin Williams, Elsi Gwyn, Tom Gerrard, Roy Ostle, Karel Lek, Jonah Jones, Arthur Pritchard, Claudia Williams, Donald McIntyre, Helen Steinthal and Peter Chadwick.

Hutt regularly exhibited her work in North Wales as well as across the UK, France and Germany. These exhibitions were often reviewed e.g. the Western Mail in 1964 wrote: “The exhibition of 40 paintings at Port Meirion by Joan Hutt is a significant first 'one-man show' that registers an important breakthrough for a well-known North Wales artist, prevented for years from giving full expression to her talent."

She once described her philosophy on painting as follows: “As far back as I can remember myself I am drawing or painting. I have always wanted to paint, to express my joy in form and colour. My especial delight is people's heads. I love to convey personalities, any personalities onto canvas. I regard myself as an expressionist. I paint what I feel strongly about. I feel that paintings should be timeless, personal and original statements of the artists. I do not believe in fashions or theories. I want to be myself.” Further information on Joan Hutt is available at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hutt.

Her family has kept some of her paintings in storage and has recently decided to sell these.