Spring has finally arrived! I hope you are all well and happy.

There are places available on my Friday courses in person at Adult Learning Lewisham - Drawing and Painting Studio 10am - 12.30 and Watercolour Made Easy 1 - 3.30pm. 

Both courses start this week - April 28th, and run for 10 weeks at The Brockley Rise Centre.

To find out more and book your place please click on the links below:

Drawing and painting studio:

https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app009sbr---drawing-and-painting---studio---summer---77022

• Watercolour made easy: ten-week course starting on 28 April

I'm also super delighted and excited to be part of The Gift! Curated by Vanya Balogh. It's at Cross Lane Projects Vestry Street gallery:

6-8 Vestry St, London, N1 7RE
FREE ADMISSION

The private view is on Thursday May 4th

6-8pm

Then the show is open 

Wednesday – Friday 12-5pm until June 2nd

I hope to see you somewhere soon!

With love and best wishes - Jo

 Hi everyone!

The next round of my online course Exploring Creativity starts on Feb. 21st, and the next 5 weeks of online life drawing starts tomorrow February 7th!

Please find the details below.

If you have any questions or would like to sign up please email vox@joart.info.

EXPLORING CREATIVITY EARLY SPRING RUN 2023 Feb 21st - April 25th 

Week 1 Feb 21st

 - Eric Ravilious and watercolour landscapes

Week 2 Feb 28th

 - Daniel Edelstyn and Hilary Powell, art, politics and power. The artists will attend a live QandA this week

Week 3 March 7th 

- Renee Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald, art nouveau, secessionism and the Glasgow style

Week 4 March 14th 

- The James Webb telescope and Markos Kay's machine generated art, CGI and digital abstraction 

Week 5 March 21st 

- Stanley Spencer and the landscape in oil paint

Week 6 March 28th 

- Felicity Aylieff and stylised botanically illustrated pots

Week 7 April 4th 

- Vanessa Barragao and textiles inspired by nature

Week 8 April 11th 

- Laura Knight and Cornish social realist impressionism

Week 9 April 18th

- Harland Miller and textural graphic abstraction

Week 10 April 25th

- Grandma Moses and colourful, heartfelt American naive style art

 Hi everyone! I hope that January is treating you well.

I'm running a one off botanical art class this Saturday, Jan. 21st, for Bankside Open Spaces Trust, and it's free! All art materials and flowers are provided. Booking is essential and can be done via Eventbrite: 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/botanical-watercolour-workshop-tickets-489382234437

It starts at 10.30am and finishes at 1pm at Living Space Community Centre, 1 Coral Street, Waterloo, London SE1 7BE.

We'll learn all about the work of artist and scientist Maria Sybilla Merian, and a bit about the structure of plants, then I'll guide you while you make your own botanical watercolour drawings from observing fresh plants and flowers.

Here's the flyer:

 I'm very pleased and delighted to have been invited to exhibit with artists Edori Fertig and Gill Day, at the Jeannie Avent Gallery in East Dulwich.

If you remember Two Bananas at The Copper Beech Cafe, you might like Three Bananas at Jeannie Avent!

It opens this Thursday November 10th, and runs for 2 weeks - ending on November 22nd. I look forward to seeing you there!

https://goo.gl/maps/XstAsce4ktqApYiC7

In other news, my work with Wave Cafe is coming to an end. My last Thursdays over at Wave in Muswell Hill will be on December 1st and January 5th. I hope to see you at the art table, where we'll be exploring mono printing. I'll be there between 11am and 2pm: 

https://www.wavecafe.org/

 Dear friends,

Autumn is upon us! And what chaos it brings. If you want to see some art that addresses the current and historical political situation as well as lovely work inspired by nature, please join me at the opening party for Topical Trio, at The Hill Station Cafe Gallery, Kitto Road, SE14, on October 30th.

I'm very happy to be involved in this exhibition, with my dear friends and colleagues Dick Graham and Frances Greville. Here's the flyer:

Here's the location:

And here are the artists:

The opening party will be on Sunday October 30th, 4-7pm with drinks, nibbles, a live singing performance from me, and piano accompaniment from Martha.

See you there!

In other news, my good friend and fellow artist Kimbal Bumstead and I have been sharing sounds, and he and his partner Eli have put some of them into a beautiful soundscape that was part of a drawing performance art piece that took place up North last month. You can listen to it here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/K_plus_E/sonic-traces-live-drawing-performance/

If you take drawing classes with me you might spot your own sounds of stippling, which I recorded during a drawing focus class earlier in the year. Enjoy!

Kimbal is showing at The Other Art Fair this weekend, stand 88 - it finishes at 6pm today, if you have time do pop by!

https://www.theotherartfair.com/london/tickets/?bxid=3601686&utm_source=toaf_ldnpre&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2127&c_aid=ldnpre&c_xid=101622&utm_content=101622_ldnpre&c_crid=banner

 Hi everyone!

If you're at a loose end this Friday 30th of September, and you're looking for some excitement please join me and inspirall artists Nicole Mollet, Frog Morris, Mikey Georgeson and Sarah Sparkes for a mash up medley of our Sleepwalkers Guide to Deptford, first aired in February as part of Lewisham London Borough of Culture's events, We Are Lewisham. The walk is donation based, please go here to book:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sleepwalking-deptford-part-2-tickets-414856154927?aff=erelpanelorg&keep_tld=1

Also booking now is my next life drawing all day class for Adult Learning Lewisham, on Saturday October 8th, 10am - 3.30pm. It's a hybrid class, costs around 40 quid and there are half price tickets for those eligible for concessions. There are plenty of online spaces available, but very few in person spots left:

To book an IN PERSON place please go here:

https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app0040br---life-drawing---all-day---1-day-workshop---dec---77103

To book an ONLINE place please go here:

https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app0040ol---life-drawing---all-day---1-day-workshop---dec---online---77128

I very much look forward to seeing you somewhere soon!

Best wishes - Jo

Dear everyone,

Summer is upon us at last! But you don't have to miss out on your art fun or art courses! 

I'm exhibiting in East Sussex this month and also teaching lots of summer school one day classes for Adult Learning Lewisham. 

I'll also be teaching an independent one off Exploring Creativity class at the end of July, before a break in August. 

The courses I'm teaching at Adult Learning Lewisham from September will be live to book tomorrow! 

And this Tuesday there's a final 5 week life drawing online before the summer break. This is an independent class that I run via zoom:

To book a place or find out more send an email to me vox@joart.info - you can also join mid way through the course, or take one or two sessions at a reduced rate, let me know if you'd like to arrange that.

My other private class is a one off Exploring Creativity class that will take place on July 26th, 10am - 1pm on zoom. We'll explore the work of UK based contemporary abstract artist Dragomir Misina. The cost is pay what you can, maximum £35, minimum £10. Please email me for more details.

Booking for September classes at AdultLearning Lewisham opens tomorrow, Monday 27th of July. Courses I'll be teaching there include Wednesday evening life drawing and painting, Thursday afternoon and Thursday evening drawing and personal projects, Friday morning studio time and Friday afternoon Watercolour Made Easy, as well as a variety of Super Art Saturdays and Life Drawing all dayers one Saturday every month. There's loads to choose from, so head over to the website to have a look! 

https://lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/education/adult/find-a-course/art-pottery-and-performing-arts-courses

But you don't have to wait until September to try something new, because my one day summer courses for Adult Learning Lewisham are happening in July! Please find details below. The summer courses are all in person only, and most still have a few places available. To find out more or book a place, please follow the link under each poster.

https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app0136br---drawing---painting---summer-finishing-school---studio-time---78842  

https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app0137br---watercolour---advanced---summer-school---78843

https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app0139br---exploring-abstraction---three-women-artists---summer-school---78845

https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app0138br---exploring-drawing---summer-school---78844

Other one day classes available in July are my Life Drawing All Day hybrid class  - July 16th: Enjoy a full days figure drawing! In the morning session we'll explore different techniques for gestural drawing , blind contour drawing, opposite hand and action drawing. Loosening up with a series short poses and working to music, we'll build up to a very long pose in the afternoon

https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app0082br---life-drawing---all-day---1-day-workshop---july---75532

And Super Art Saturday - monoprinting, July 9th: Become a super artist! Have super fun trying out a range of different techniques for drawing and painting. With a variety of practical exercises and technical information, this fun day will help you unleash your creativity and build confidence for making a range of artworks using different mediums.This course will give you the opportunity to try out a variety of methods for using monoprinting techniques, including additive, subtractive, chine collet and mixed media.:

https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app0132br---super-art-saturday---1-day-workshop---still-life---exploring-drawing-and-surface

I have a monoprint on display in the Sea Creatures exhibition in Hastings:

SEA CREATURES!

A Mind Your Head Seaside Special Exhibition 

Venue: Zuzushii Art Laboratory  26 White Rock  Hastings  East Sussex  TN34 1JY
Artists, Performers and Deep-sea Divas:

Caroline Gregory / Fumico Azuma / Frog Morris / Good For Nothing Poet / Joanna McCormick 

Jude Montague / Julia Maddison / Mikey Georgeson / Miyuki Kasahara / Monika Tobel  
Montague Armstrong / Nicole Mollett / Paola De Ramos / Sarah Doyle / Sarah Sparkes / Sparkes & Thompson / Spruce Monkscyth / Tim Can / Venetia Nevill 

To find out more click the link here:

https://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/arts-culture/arts-news/mind-your-head-live-art-cabaret-seaside-special