Jo Hooper

My painting practice  explores memory, liminal space and my embodied response to walking within the landscape.  I am particularly intrigued by the in-between states of twilight and dawn and  am constantly lured by the emotive power of the interaction of colour.

 I use colour both instinctively and deliberately by working from memory and by viscerally responding to emerging forms on the canvas. I dissolve and layer paint to both reveal and conceal new patterns and colours and to play with light, translucence and luminosity.

I consciously play with the space between figuration and abstraction to explore  an uncertain  narrative within  an uncanny sense of place and I seek to represent a sense of something ‘other’ within the picture plane; a feeling of the genius loci of liminal space.