Jo York is a painter inspired by landscape and walking. She grew up in Sussex; walking the South Downs and for over 20 years, she lived and worked in North Yorkshire.

Jo has recently settled in rural Warwickshire, building her new studio there, next to rolling countryside.

Atmospheric * Abstracted * Landscapes * Wide open spaces *

It all begins with landscape

Jo’s work is abstracted and atmospheric; concerned with conveying a sense of place. atmosphere and light.

Ideas come from walking in often wide open, seemingly empty landscapes…Jo is fascinated by layers in landscape and time as well as building layers in paint. Her work is instinctive and particularly plays with liminal spaces, such as the ‘edges’ where land, sea, sky, and water come together.

Her work is built up very gradually, in a great many opaque and translucent layers, in oils and cold wax, acrylics and mixed media. She often works on several paintings at once, and each one can take months to complete.