12/26/2025
So maybe you've seen us but who are we?
In 1978, after moving to Florida Joanne was fortunate to study Chinese Brush Painting in the traditional Ling Nan style with the renown Chinese brush painting masters Chow Chiang Chiu and Chow Leung Chen Ying. She has since studied with master calligrapher Shantien Tom Chow in San Diego, at the China Art Academy in Hangzhou, China and James Tan from Vancouver, Canada.
Joanne painted bamboo for a full year, mastering the nuances of the strokes and gradations of ink. Little did she realize bamboo would be a huge part of her future when she and her husband, Tom Sullivan, a woodworker, made the first bamboo cutting board.
Joanne Sullivan Gallery is a mix of their Totally Bamboo products and collections of Joanne’s brush painting.
