I’ve worked in Art all my life; as a teacher, mentor, art consultant and art finder, illustrator, designer and fine artist...
After many years combining my Art practice with consultancy in Arts education, I’m now focussing completely on my own practice, mainly as a painter.
My work comes from a strong sense of place derived from walking in the landscape; absorbing it in all weathers, seasons and moods. Landscapes are full of layers; geological and historical, industrial and personal- they carry traces of what’s gone before, and this is what fascinates and intrigues me. I abstract ideas from the landscapes I know well, using observation, imagination and memory.
Current work is exploring margins in those areas where land, sea, water and sky, shift and merge and change. I’m fascinated by wild landscapes and my work explores the feeling of being outside in a kind of atmospheric abstraction.
My paintings are made slowly, building multiple layers and often scraping back and incising detail, before glazing over the top, to create a complex picture surface.
My work is in both private and corporate collections, in the UK and abroad.
Jo York is an artist inspired by landscape, she explores layers in the landscape and in paint, especially areas where the margins between land, sky, and sea, shift and merge and change.
