Joy Lynn Davis is an artist from Santa Barbara, California. She currently divides her time between Santa Barbara and Patan, Nepal, where she has lived and worked as an artist in residence atKathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre since August 2012. She received her BA in Art from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2002, where she focused on painting and digital art. In addition, she has studied the Tibetan and Nepali languages, Himalayan art history and religions, as well as traditional thangka painting. In 2008 and 2009, she was awarded a Warhol Fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her acrylic and gold leaf paintings combine realism with traditional Nepali and Tibetan motifs and styles. Her paintings are the culmination of travels, interviews, photography, and art surveys conducted in Asia over the last eleven years.
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