Local artist and Silvergate dad, he is better known to the Point Loma community as Doctor Allen, family practitioner and sports medicine physician. Joseph began drawing as a child, oil painting by age 7, and refined his life drawing and medical illustration skills during college and medical school.
His most influential artists include Michaelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, Vermeer, Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh, Picasso, Thomas Jefferson, M.C. Escher, and Frank Netter, among others. These influences are evident in the vibrant colors, textures, and composition of his varied works in oil, pastel and charcoal. His creative instincts have also developed beyond framed art into landscape design and architecture.
Fluent in French and Spanish, Dr. Allen’s works are on display in both France (Chez Fumee, Lons-le-Saunier, and Chateau Ige, Burgundy), and Mexico (La Casa Encantada, Patzcuaro, Michoacan). Locally his donated works are on display at both the San Diego Rowing and San Diego Yacht Clubs..