Joe Mullins spent most of his career as a graphic artist in New York City. Studying on and off at the Art Students League of New York City since high school, he could always be found drawing and painting what was around him be that the landscape, passengers on a train, estuaries coastlines and marinas. After moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2019 he began to paint full-time. Finding most inspiration in the incredibly varied landscape and the ever changing monsoon clouds of the high desert.

As an artist, I work my watercolors in a way that mimics the high desert of Northern NM. I often apply layers of pigments, sometimes heavily, than removing and washing out areas of the paper, some pigments stain the paper, some leave a slight trace and all the possibilities in between,  sometimes this process is repeated several times, I try to enter a world that allows the painting to mimic the landscape around me of northern NM. One can easily see where the eons of weather found a niche on a mountain side and blindly created a canyon or an alluvial fan, I try to allow the interactions of pigments, water and paper mimic this young landscape I live in.

Lifetime member of the Art Students League
Associate Member of the American Watercolor Society
New Mexico Watercolor Society, Signature Member First Prize 2024 New Mexico Watercolor Society, MasterWorks Show
Santa Fe Society of Artists

Several works acquired by NM Department of Culture Affairs for the Art in Public Places collection.