All About Me
Jo Mitchell Long is a contemporary painter whose work explores how form, colour and composition can hold emotion, memory and narrative.
Her recent tablescapes reimagine the still life as both intimate and theatrical — the table becoming a site of ritual, gathering and quiet reflection. Plates, vessels and textiles are arranged as if in performance, suggesting presence and absence, abundance and pause. These works position everyday objects as contemporary icons, carrying the emotional weight of lived experience.
Alongside this, her landscapes offer a more expansive, atmospheric language. Built through layered colour and gestural mark-making, they evoke the shifting nature of place as it is felt rather than seen — shaped by light, memory and mood rather than fixed geography.
Mitchell Long’s practice is rooted in abstraction, where she first explored gesture, rhythm and balance as a visual language beyond representation. This foundation, combined with her background in graphic design and media, continues to inform her work, giving it a distinctive tension between structure and spontaneity, clarity and atmosphere.
She works from Wimbledon Art Studios, London. In 2025, she made her debut at the Affordable Art Fair London and was shortlisted for the VAA Art International Award (Top 500). She will exhibit at the Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead in May 2026.
Across these interconnected bodies of work, Mitchell Long moves between intimacy and expansiveness, object and atmosphere, always returning to the same question: how can painting give form to what cannot be said — the emotions and spaces that exist just beyond words?