Joanne Mumford

British artist based in France.

I’m an oil painter artist that reflectively analyses and displays natural elements, highlighting the observed extents, differences and less distinguishable.

My paintings are images of natural components, with considerations of the unseen, the innate and the acquired. Certain qualities attract me to paint an image and this combined with my sensibilities and my own preference to withdraw from some of the customary, initiates my art.

I produce both large canvases and comparatively smaller ones, depending on what the image necessitates. I paint and simultaneously evaluate an image, analysing and displaying reactions and consequences, which often result in visually concentrated representations, in either a raw or a more refined manner.

Reflecting on my art as it has evolved, I recognise some inextricably linked underlying themes. Studying prime and definitive states, experiencing exclusion and reward, musing on the emotional and spiritual and an exploration into the unable to grasp and wordless, often became inadvertently cross-referenced. My art is a culmination of considerations, sensitivities and chain of scenarios and I hope my images capture and convey an air of relative sensation that has...

Graduated with BA (Hons) Fine Art 2005-2007 Middlesex University, London.
HND Fine Art 2004-2005 HNC Fine Art 2003-2004
Foundation Art & Design 2002-2003. London Borough of Havering.

Notable exhibitions include A Brush with Art, Group Exhibition at Musée Château Lascaris, Gorbio, France. 12th February - 7th May 2023 with 13 large and smaller oil on canvas works on show. Also, 17 oil on canvas paintings in my solo exhibition Energy Creation And Differing Form, at St.John's English Library, Menton, France, 12th May - 7th June 2022. Other exhibitions include 14 oil on canvas paintings in my solo exhibition Water, Ice & the Ranges of Understanding, 2nd -27th August 2016 at Pictorem Gallery in London E17. Previously invited to exhibit eleven large oil paintings at 60 Threadneedle Street for a four month solo show in London. Other exhibitions include the Visual Arts Centre for a solo exhibition of oil paintings in the 'Water Series' - awarded as part of the Big Arts Submission. The 17th Century Barn at Thames Chase, Upminster, The 491 Gallery, The Hospital in Covent Garden when I was short-listed for the Nationwide Mercury Art Prize 2006 and the Degree Show at The Old Truman Brewery, London.