Jo Lewis is a London-based artist who works in ink and watercolour on paper.
In these works Jo Lewis distills the use of ink and watercolour to create boldly minimal work. Often singular brush strokes appear illusive, ‘nearly not there’, whilst others in their opacity announce their presence. This apparent simplicity defies these works’ complexity, as collectively they address essential matters; those of light, colour, fluidity of form and most notably the encounter.
Colours meet and ‘sing’ together, and to do this they require the presence of each other. Edges barely touch and hover close.The tension and immediacy of these meetings is held and contained by the space of the paper. Each encounter, as in life, is unpredictable, intimate and unique. This is an ‘actually very’ real matter.
The accompanying words (‘titles’) instigate the opening up of another space of encounter; words meeting image and thus prompting another dimension of resonance.
~ Penny Skerrett
