Jo Lewis
To the River - New works on paper
Jo Lewis
“I like the stillness of Nature...stillness full of the tremors of life” (Victor Pasmore)
Jo Lewis’s work happens in the moving waters of rivers, the sea, lakes and streams. Jo uses ink and watercolour, their endless nuance and subtlety associated for centuries with artists that work outside. Jo wants to collaborate with the water, for the work to be the result of a meeting: not just of the practicalities of the paper, water and ink, but also an encounter between herself and the river.
‘ For me, to embark on a drawing is to embark on a conversation. Water has a crystalline and spontaneous responsiveness. It takes shape according to whatever it encounters and demands the same of me. The water, the mud, the stone and rocks, and me, we are all in process. I find that vitality very exciting, a realisation of “the pulsations of the invisible in which all things are soaked.” ‘ (Francois Cheng)
Jo trained at the University of Edinburgh and the École des Beaux-Arts in Valence, and is based in south London. She exhibits regularly in the UK and France and also works to commission. Her work is in the collections of multiple institutions including the More London Collection of Contemporary Art, The Royal College of Music, Ripple USA, Ashtead Hospital, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and 22 Bishopsgate, London. In 2020 Jo was shortlisted for the Edge Arts Visions of Science award and recently was invited to present her work at the Drawing Research Network Conference, ‘Temporal Drawing.’
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