Joey Masciotra — better known around Seattle as Joey Paintbrush — has been painting in Seattle since 1991. Acrylic on canvas. Animals, cityscapes, surreal scenes — whatever shows up in his head that morning.
Every canvas he paints on is one he built himself. Kiln-dried stretcher bars, premium cotton duck, hand-stretched and stapled in his Seattle studio. The frame matters as much as what goes on it.
Over three decades, the work has covered ground — early ink studies of turtles and TV people, mid-90s urban scenes of monorails and pizza guys, mid-career studio work in the early 2000s, and recent paintings of sea monsters, alien landscapes, and things that don't have names yet.
Joey's work has been collected by art lovers across the Pacific Northwest. He continues to paint full-time from his Seattle studio.
The nickname is older than the website. Friends, collectors, and gallery owners have called him Joey Paintbrush (or simply JTP — "Joey the Paintbrush") since the early '90s, back when the first canvases were going up in Seattle apartments and coffee-shop walls. By the early 2000s, he was signing whole series with the JTP mark — pieces like JTP Last Supper and JTP Studio still float around private collections in the Pacific Northwest.
For years, his work lived at the original joeypaintbrush.com. The site eventually went dark, and the archive of 80+ paintings now lives here at joeymasciotra.com — same Joey, same Seattle studio, same hand-built canvases, just under his full name. If you're looking for "Joey Paintbrush" or "Joey the Paintbrush" — you're in the right place.
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