BC artist Joe Enns painting an oil portrait of Bob Long at the Langley Arts Council portrait competition at the Kinsmen Community Center, Aldergrove in February 2022.
Joe Enns is an oil painter, writer, and fisheries biologist on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Joe is self-taught as an oil painter (YouTube tutorials and magazines), and his subjects range from portraits and figures, to wildlife and landscapes. He is inspired by impressionism and disruptive realism and strives to emulate these aspects in his own work with loose and messy brush strokes.
Joe’s paintings are currently showing at the Nomad Gallery in White Rock, BC. His works have previously appeared in a number of shows and galleries throughout Vancouver Island, the Okanagan, and the Fraser Valley.
Joe has a BA in Creative Writing from Vancouver Island University and a BSc in Ecological Restoration from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Joe’s poetry has been published in
GUSTS, and
Nonfiction publications
The Link
Book Reviews
Joe’s fiction was short-listed for FreeFall’s 2020 Prose and Poetry Contest.