Joey Lancaster is a self-taught artist from Fort Worth, Texas who is known for her work Aspen tree, with which she fell in love with since her youth on family travels to Colorado. Lancaster is a self-taught artist who fell in love with aspen trees since her youth on family travels to Colorado. Joey Lancaster strives for experience and joy through the beauty of art. Twenty-five years in the decorative arts, studying in NYC and Southern California, laid the foundation, exposure and opportunity to master a multitude of mediums with sometimes orthodox but often unorthodox applications. This exposure led ultimately to plaster as her medium of choice. This "old" material contrasts perfectly with her modern vision of nature. Plaster intrinsically allows for thick and smooth, refined or distressed, delicate or wild strokes ... much like the artist herself. Her isolation of the subject—just the bark of the aspens, just the petals of a flower...no leaves or landscapes, allows their simplicity yet complicated beauty to shine through. Modern architecture and art was her upbringing, but understanding the old masters and structures brought this dichotomy together. Plaster on canvas; a use of an old material is the perfect contrast to a modern choice of subjects. The hand-tinted plaster is applied with various sized trowels in multiple layers before the main subject is painted. This results in a unique backdrop for a modern subject. The unpredictability of plaster and its application result in a perfectly imperfect image of beauty. Lancaster currently lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas.