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August 2024: Newsletter
Echoes, my painting about colour and light, in oils and cold wax on canvas.
Newsletter: July 2024
Under Deep Waters, an abstract painting inspired by the dark depths of a reservoir surrounded by hills, painted in many layers with incised detail. Artist: Jo York
Newsletter: June 2024
Delicious little original artworks, mounted on solid wooden blocks with crisp white sides, perfect for standing on shelves or window ledges or even tables. These are all abstracted landscapes in warm rich reds, picks and ochres with some cool blue contrasts.
Newsletter: May 2024
And Still, my atmospheric abstraction painting about a rich warm sky and a shallow estuary; one of those liminal spaces where barges shift and merge and change.
Newsletter: April 2024
One of my new abstract statement pieces in warm pinks and russets, on a metre squared canvas.
Newsletter: February 2024
Prelude: a dramatic atmospheric abstraction inspired by cloud-scapes in Nidderdale.
Newsletter: January 2024
Walking In Cloud, An Atmospheric Abstraction painting by Jo York, currently available from Silson Contemporary
Newsletter: November 23
My Atmospheric Abstract Painting: This is Your Land, currently available from Look Gallery, Helmsley.
A real statement painting, full of the glorious rich colour of Autumn.
Newsletter: September 23
New Atmospheric Abstraction painting inspired by the colours and feeling of being out on a local moorland landscape-painting in lovely autumnal colours.
Newsletter: August 23
new oil painting inspired by long grasses, in soft summer light by Jo York
Newsletter July 23
We All Need An Ocean: A very abstracted response to walking a wide and deserted stretch of sea, in blues and greens.
Newsletter: June 2023
Monthly studio news from Jo York!
This is my painting early Bird, an Atmospheric painting inspired by our local moorland.
Newsletter: April 2023
Part of my daily painting practice, small intuitive paintings, made direct in paint. This one is in blues and greens and warm earthy orange hues.
Newsletter: March 2023
intuitive response to my local landscape, working directly in paint.
Newsletter: February 23
New abstract painting inspired by sunsets over open countryside. So new it hasn’t even got a name yet!
The painting is made in many layers and has a blocky style with subtle translucent overlays and s’graffito texture marks