Joanna Mary Boyce (1831 to 1861) was a gifted British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Born in London, she was encouraged from an early age by her father and brother, the painter George Price Boyce, to pursue an artistic education and career. Joanna first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1855, where her painting Elgiva was praised by John Ruskin as 'so subtle, and so tenderly wrought.' She travelled to Italy, where she refined her craft and married portrait painter Henry Tanworth Wells. Training in London and Paris under Thomas Couture, she developed a distinctive style shaped as much by French academic traditions as by Pre-Raphaelite ideals. She wrote insightful art criticism, championing originality and sincerity while challenging the Royal Academy's conservatism.Her diaries and letters reveal a woman determined to carve out an independent artistic identity despite the narrow expectations placed upon Victorian women and the resistance she sometimes encountered from both her mother and, at times, her husband before they married. These writings illuminate the delicate balance she sought between creative ambition and family life. Joanna died in 1861 after the birth of her third child. Many of her paintings remained unfinished or unsold and, tragically, some of her surviving works were later destroyed during the Second World War, leaving her artistic legacy fragmented.This imagined book of dreams creates a work of montage, with fragments of Joanna's life and opinions blended within a symbolist poetic space. Prose poems that create a layered masking and unmasking of voices and decadent dream symbolism.