Joy Laville was actually born on September 8, 1923, on the Isle of Wight, England. Her father was a captain in the Indian army. After living in various places with her family and later with her first husband (Canada) she settled in Mexico, where she pursued art in earnest, as her career. She studied at Instituto Allende in San Miguel Allende, where she made her home.
Laville experimented with Cubism and Abstract Expressionism before developing her own style. She works in oils and acrylics but has also used pastels, worked in graphics, sculpture and painted ceramics. Her major influence has been Roger von Gunten. Her work to a dramatic turn after the death of her husband in an airplane crash. She abandoned painting for a time and when she resumed her colors and shapes became sharper, darker, focused on death and the curiosity of another realm.
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