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237 Lisburn Road, Belfast
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BT9 7EN, Northern Ireland
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Joy Clements
The name of Joy Clements
has become increasingly known on the Ulster art scene during the last number of years. Understandably
so, for not only has she a facility with pastel, watercolour and gouache, she has also a special talent
for achieving a likeness in portraiture, while at the same time evidencing a very personal vision.
Honorary Secretary of The Ulster Society of Women Artists, she was elected a Diploma Holder of that flourishing
organisation. Born Joyce Mary Drackett-Case, in a small village near Newmarket, in Suffolk, she was educated
in Kingston, Surrey.
"I always loved painting and drawing as a child, particularly portraits of
father, who would willingly pose for hours, but while likenesses were remarked on by relatives and friends,
no one took the idea seriously".
"I was encouraged to choose a practical career and gained a
scholarship to secretarial college".
She worked for a short time in a secretary in the Service and
also did a lot of stage work, especially drama which she loved.
She met and married Edgar Clements,
a County Antrim man, and after having lived in various parts of England and Ireland, they settled in
Ulster in 1959. Edgar is Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at the Ulster College (Northern Ireland
Polytechnic).
The Clements have a son, Maxwell, and a daughter, Susan, each of whom has inherited
artistic talent. Maxwell is a furniture designer and Susan specialises in commercial art and jewellery-making.
She also spends time working with handicapped children, especially the blind and the deaf. Since the
age of twenty-five Joy Clements has been troubled intermittenly with agoraphobia, although she says she
did not have a name for the complaint until about ten years ago.
"I nursed my mother for eight
years and after her death the symptoms became so bad I was obliged to take action. Since 1973 I have
been working with Margaret Newby, the psychotherapist, using the Jungian approach. I recorded and drew
dreams which ultimately led to a serious and wholehearted application to develop arytistic ability"
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