Jo Painter is a Cornish based Artist who works primarily with charcoal and chalks. Her work is mostly representational landscape and portraiture art, working from life, she uses her hands and fingers to apply the chalks and charcoal to the paper.. The works could
be mistaken to fit into the genre of realism, however Jo creates her works from multiple marks and lines, so the closer to the artwork you move, the more abstract it becomes. Her work is inspired by the fluidity of life and water which is emulated in the rippling, weaving and ever changeable lines that make up her work.

Cornwall Art Gallery - North Coast Asylum