#OnThisDay 1986: The singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell showed how painting was part of her creative process. | BBC Archive

“I’m a painter first, and I kind of apply painting principles to my music.” From the beginning, many of Joni’s albums merge her music with album covers featuring her very own artwork. What’s your favorite? See more Joni shorts now on YouTube here: youtube.com/c/JoniMitchell/shorts | Joni Mitchell

June 30, 2000 Voices: The Work of Joni Mitchell, opened at Saskatoon's Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatchewan. This was her first Canadian retrospective exhibition of her drawings, paintings and photography. Jo Lynn Sheane, reporter for the half-hour evening show Saturday Report, goes to the opening of Voices in Saskatoon. Joni's High School french teacher, Bob Hinet, recalls the assignment he gave 16 year-old Joni to "paint a picture of Paris". This CBC newsclip featuring Joni's exhibition was broa

Joni Mitchell - Painting With Words And Music - Live in 1998 0:00 Intro - Tiger Bones 2:50 Big Yellow Taxi 6:09 Just Like This Train 10:57 Introducing the Band 11:39 Night Ride Home 15:08 The Crazy Cries of Love 19:55 Harry's House 24:23 Black Crow 27:54 Monologue (on Hejira) 29:17 Amelia 36:04 Hejira 42:32 Monologue (on justice, Sex Kills) 44:22 Sex Kills 47:57 Magdalene Laundries 52:32 Moon at The Window 56:56 Monologue ("Good morbid Christmas songs") 57:24 Face Lift 1:01:43 Monologue (on Why

“I’m just a lonely painter I live in a box of paints” Reminiscing on Joni’s first love, painting, in honor of Portfolio Day. | Joni Mitchell