Jo de Pear - Urchin II, 2024
Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 60 x 60 cm
Image Dimensions: 60 x 60 cm
Edition of 25 (with unique variations)
Framed/unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £105.00 (unframed).
Jo is a multi-disciplinary printmaker. She gained her BA at Edinburgh and her MA in Printmaking at Chelsea.
During the past few years she has been working in Antigua producing a large body of tropically themed works, specifically focussing on sea corals and more recently sea urchins.
Her love of diving has lead her to working as a volunteer for a marine conservation group, specifically helping on their coral nurseries. Their work to help regenerate areas of reef and highlight the effects of climate change is something that Jo tries to highlight in her woodcuts and etchings, using the multitude of dead sea fans and urchins that she finds on the sea floor.
Jo’s sea fan woodcuts have been informed from detailed cyanotypes, cast using the strong Caribbean UV light. The colour palettes used reflect the vibrant colours she sees all around her, from the street signage and brightly coloured houses, to the lush tropical flora.
She combines the woodcuts with screen printed monotypes, which form the first water based layer. These are overprinted with the oil based woodcuts. The interplay of these two very different inks forms a playful surface when seen from different viewpoints.
‘I love the painterly elements that I can get within each print, as with these ethereal, beautiful structures, no two are the same’
Her large scale Urchin woodcuts combine the same techniques. They are a celebration of the humble sea urchin, of the beauty and symmetry found in nature and their other worldliness.
In the UK Jo works between Artichoke Printmaking Workshop in Brixton and Bainbridge Studios. She has exhibited several times at the RA Summer Exhibition and is in the print collections of The British Museum and the V&A. She has a residency this July at Art Print Residence in Barcelona.
Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 60 x 60 cm
Image Dimensions: 60 x 60 cm
Edition of 25 (with unique variations)
Framed/unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £105.00 (unframed).
Jo is a multi-disciplinary printmaker. She gained her BA at Edinburgh and her MA in Printmaking at Chelsea.
During the past few years she has been working in Antigua producing a large body of tropically themed works, specifically focussing on sea corals and more recently sea urchins.
Her love of diving has lead her to working as a volunteer for a marine conservation group, specifically helping on their coral nurseries. Their work to help regenerate areas of reef and highlight the effects of climate change is something that Jo tries to highlight in her woodcuts and etchings, using the multitude of dead sea fans and urchins that she finds on the sea floor.
Jo’s sea fan woodcuts have been informed from detailed cyanotypes, cast using the strong Caribbean UV light. The colour palettes used reflect the vibrant colours she sees all around her, from the street signage and brightly coloured houses, to the lush tropical flora.
She combines the woodcuts with screen printed monotypes, which form the first water based layer. These are overprinted with the oil based woodcuts. The interplay of these two very different inks forms a playful surface when seen from different viewpoints.
‘I love the painterly elements that I can get within each print, as with these ethereal, beautiful structures, no two are the same’
Her large scale Urchin woodcuts combine the same techniques. They are a celebration of the humble sea urchin, of the beauty and symmetry found in nature and their other worldliness.
In the UK Jo works between Artichoke Printmaking Workshop in Brixton and Bainbridge Studios. She has exhibited several times at the RA Summer Exhibition and is in the print collections of The British Museum and the V&A. She has a residency this July at Art Print Residence in Barcelona.
Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 60 x 60 cm
Image Dimensions: 60 x 60 cm
Edition of 25 (with unique variations)
Framed/unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £105.00 (unframed).
Jo is a multi-disciplinary printmaker. She gained her BA at Edinburgh and her MA in Printmaking at Chelsea.
During the past few years she has been working in Antigua producing a large body of tropically themed works, specifically focussing on sea corals and more recently sea urchins.
Her love of diving has lead her to working as a volunteer for a marine conservation group, specifically helping on their coral nurseries. Their work to help regenerate areas of reef and highlight the effects of climate change is something that Jo tries to highlight in her woodcuts and etchings, using the multitude of dead sea fans and urchins that she finds on the sea floor.
Jo’s sea fan woodcuts have been informed from detailed cyanotypes, cast using the strong Caribbean UV light. The colour palettes used reflect the vibrant colours she sees all around her, from the street signage and brightly coloured houses, to the lush tropical flora.
She combines the woodcuts with screen printed monotypes, which form the first water based layer. These are overprinted with the oil based woodcuts. The interplay of these two very different inks forms a playful surface when seen from different viewpoints.
‘I love the painterly elements that I can get within each print, as with these ethereal, beautiful structures, no two are the same’
Her large scale Urchin woodcuts combine the same techniques. They are a celebration of the humble sea urchin, of the beauty and symmetry found in nature and their other worldliness.
In the UK Jo works between Artichoke Printmaking Workshop in Brixton and Bainbridge Studios. She has exhibited several times at the RA Summer Exhibition and is in the print collections of The British Museum and the V&A. She has a residency this July at Art Print Residence in Barcelona.