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All About Me

My practice is rooted in a search for how form colour, and composition can hold emotion, memory and story. It began with abstraction, where I explored gesture and rhythm as a language beyond representation. These early works were about energy, balance and the traces of process — paintings that invited open-ended interpretation and became records of thought in motion.

 

With a background in graphic design and media, I bring a strong awareness of structure and visual rhythm to my work. This foundation informs the bold, graphic qualities of my mark-making, giving each composition a sense of clarity even when the subject dissolves into gesture or atmosphere.

 

From abstraction, I turned to landscapes, drawn to their capacity to hold both atmosphere and feeling. These paintings are not depictions of specific places but expressive terrains, built through layers of colour and texture. They speak to the way we experience the world around us — not as static views but as shifting, sensory encounters shaped by light, memory, and mood.

 

Most recently, my focus has moved to tablescapes. The table, for me, is both intimate and theatrical: a surface of gathering and ritual, but also a stage where objects and materials perform human presence. Plates, vessels and textiles become actors in arrangements that suggest abundance, absence or quiet reflection. These works reimagine still life as a site of narrative and care, a terrain of its own where everyday materials carry the weight of memory and emotion.

 

I work from my studio at Wimbledon Art Studios, London, where I continue to develop these interconnected series. In 2025, I make my debut at the Affordable Art Fair London, and my work was recently shortlisted for the VAA Art International Award (Top 500) — recognition that affirms the direction and resonance of my practice.

 

Across these bodies of work — abstraction, landscape and still life — I see a continuous thread. Each stage moves between expansiveness and intimacy, between atmosphere and object, but always asks the same question: how can painting and composition capture what cannot be said, the spaces and emotions that live between words.

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© 2025 Jo Mitchell Long

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