Joanne Wishart Gallery

I was born in Berwick upon Tweed and grew up in the beautiful Northumbrian countryside. In 2000 I gained a BDes hons in Printed Textile Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. I started my career as a freelance designer creating Hawaiian shirt print designs for the USA market. In 2006 together with my husband Ross we set up our  self publishing art, print and greetings card company and in 2009 won a female entrepreneur award for the North East of England's, Best Creative Business. Since then we have never looked back. I spend my days in the studio developing ideas and creating work while my husband Ross is front of house in our gallery. He runs a smooth ship acting as my agent, liaising with customers and distributing orders. We live happily in the fishing port of North Shields with our twin sons Fraser and Finley.