Joyce Haddon studied at Cambridge and the Royal Academy schools where she won the Creswick medal for landscape and the Landseer prize for landscape, drawing and painting from the antique.
Her work was exhibited at the Royal Academy with exhibitions in Paris, Sydney, Belfast, Birmingham and many more.

She was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and the New English Art Club, showing her work regularly at their annual exhibitions.
Her daughter, the journalist Celia Haddon said of her mother, 'she saw the inward light in the commonplace'.