Joel Greene was raised in Northern New Mexico, and has been called one of the most elegant of abstractionists. His work includes landscapes, still lifes, and figures. Greene says he paints intuitively, but of all aspects of art he is most interested in drawing and organisation Chr(45) the architecture of a painting. In addition, though nature inspires him, his paintings come from memory and imagination, and many are idealised. Joel Greene's work is in the collections of such museums as the University of New Mexico Museum of Art, the Harwood Foundation, the Roswell Museum and Art Center, and the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, among others.