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Background Information about Jo Brown

‘When I begin a new painting I don’t know what it will be. This ‘’not knowing’ is very important to me because of the improvisatory, intuitive way in which I work, which depends on being sensitive to what is happening as a painting unfolds. The natural world is always there somewhere in the background as I explore the feeling of landscape through colour. So, my work is more about feeling than figuration, while maintaining basic structure.’

My influences are too numerous to mention, but ‘guiding lights’ in earlier days – and even now – are Matisse, Heron, late Turner, as well as some high-abstract British painters from the sixties and seventies who have steadfastly continued to work in this way.’

BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting Sheffield Hallam University 1990-95