RECENT WORKS
GARDENS & PARKS
ROCKPOOL SERIES
COASTAL PAINTINGS
BRANTWOOD SERIES 1
BRANTWOOD SERIES 2
ITALY
DEVON
SIGHTLINES SERIES
JUST LOOKING
GICLEE PRINTS
THAMES SKETCHBOOK 2009
DORSET SKETCHBOOK
MEON VALLEY SKETCHBOOK
DRAWINGS
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Painter, Printmaker
London United Kingdom
"With a landscape subject matter that is often intensely familiar to her Joanna Brendon's bold abstracting way of working creates paintings rich in dramatic feeling and entirely mysterious in character." Nicholas Usherwood Curator/Editor
Most of my work is landscape-based; I steep myself in an environment, then explore it intensively over the following months, sometimes economising until only clues of the original source remain. This is especially so of the body of work created following my Artist's Residency at Brantwood, the home of John Ruskin in the Lake District.
“In some of the works, it may be hard to recognize the influence as her work becomes more abstract and is very much about the place rather than strictly of it".
I am interested in exploring the rhythms and patterns of landscape and the personal responses that these evoke, rather than depicting the more obvious vistas. The medium I choose is dictacted by the landscape itself, although occasionally practicalities are also considered!
As well as exhibiting at galleries, Joanna Brendon holds an Open Studio once a year as part of Artists at Home, of which she is Chair. http://www.artistsathome.net
Her main body of work is landscape-based, but she has also produced a series of conceptual prints, exploring the theme of vision, as a means of confronting her own visual impairment. Three pieces from this series are in the permanent print collection at the V&A Museum. One print, Just Looking has been created for the benefit of Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Prior to her commitment as a full-time painter, Brendon was founder-director of the concert hall, St John's Smith Square.
