"Joanna Wolthuizen displaces the image in favour of spatial condition, constructing measured geometries and mineral tonal fields that cultivate a disciplined stillness—painting as structure rather than surface."
Catalogue essay, 2026
Art That Anchors Space. Designed for Presence.
Joanna Wolthuizen advances hard-edge, lyrical abstraction into Composed Abstraction™ — geometrical emotional architecture.
Collected worldwide, her large-scale works inhabit space with powerful composure: measured colour, calibrated proportion, and quiet architectural stillness.
Each piece is crafted for discerning collectors and designers seeking art with emotional precision and enduring presence.
Private In-Situ Viewings
Melbourne-based collectors are invited to experience selected works in situ, within their own space.This complimentary service allows each work to be considered in context — proportion, light, and architectural presence — before acquisition.
Collected for the Long Term
Joanna Wolthuizen’s works are held in private and corporate collections worldwide. Each piece is created with enduring material integrity, calibrated proportion, and sustained visual relevance over time.
Joanna Wolthuizen
Artist. Founder of Composed Abstraction™
Joanna Wolthuizen is an Australian contemporary artist whose large-scale geometric paintings explore stillness, proportion, and the emotional resonance of colour within architectural space.
Working through her self-defined language of Composed Abstraction™, she creates paintings that function not as images but as spatial conditions of presence—where measured geometry, mineral tonal fields, and disciplined restraint anchor perception in quiet clarity.
Her works are held in private, corporate, and international collections and advance a contemporary evolution of hard-edge abstraction defined by balance, silence, and enduring composure.
These texts articulate the conceptual foundations of Joanna Wolthuizen’s practice in Composed Abstraction™ — a body of work in which painting operates not as image, but as spatial structure.
Across evolving series, geometry, proportion, and muted chromatic fields construct environments of stillness that extend beyond the wall and into lived architectural space.
Together, the writings trace a movement toward restraint, presence, and the quiet conditions through which perception slows and meaning endures.
Collector Spaces
Installations of Joanna Wolthuizen paintings in private and architectural settings across Australia and internationally.
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