JoAnne Horsfall Beasley was born in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and studied at Cornell University where she received a BFA and an MFA in Painting with a Minor in Filmmaking. She moved to Boston after graduation and then to California in 1974.

She began to paint the Trinity Alps of Northern California in the early 1980's after a vacation at Trinity Alps Resort. She was increasingly involved in chronicling the landscape of this part of California since that time and had the good fortune of completing a home above Trinity Lake where she maintained a studio. She was also working on a series of landscape paintings of landscapes local to her home in Palo Alto, particularly of San Francisquito Creek, The Baylands of the South Peninsula and the coastal foothills above Skyline Drive. Ms. Beasley also completed many paintings of the landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands.

Her work was shown at The Lucien Labaudt Gallery in San Francisco, The San Mateo County Arts Council in Belmont, California, The Palo Alto Cultural Center and The Seipp Gallery at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, Gallery House of Palo Alto, Stanford University through the “Art Spaces” program and at The Language of Landscape Gallery, The Highland Art Center and The Scarborough Gallery in Weaverville, California.

Ms. Beasley participated in Open Studios in Santa Clara County, for more than ten years. She joined The Main Gallery in Redwood City in March of 2002 and was a much loved member until her death in 2006.