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Born in 1934, Joan Lansdell made the Okanagan valley her home from the age of 4 when her family moved to Vernon from Wainwright, AB.

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She left to go to the University of British Columbia for her Bachelors of Science in Nursing in 1952 and went on to become a public health nurse living and working throughout B.C.

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Joan returned to the Okanagan in 1968 to Kelowna and then settled in Summerland for 35 years before retiring to Penticton after raising two sons.

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Joan had learned to work in oils, water colours and pastels during the ages of 9-18 from a wonderful private art teacher, Jessie Topham Brown.

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After a fifty year hiatus from painting, Joan returned to painting using pastels as her medium, later working in acrylics and encaustics as well. 

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She enjoyed painting landscapes of local Okanagan scenes as well as painting scenes from countries she visited. 

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Joan passed peacefully at the age of 88 in September, 2022.