Exhibitions
Joy Wolfenden Brown 'Feather'
Anima Mundi are proud to present ‘Feather’, a solo exhibition of emotive, intimate paintings and works on paper by Joy Wolfenden Brown.
“Tis said far down beneath the wild commotion. That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore”.
Harriet Beecher, American Author and Abolishionist, 1811-1896
Do words help? I don’t know. If I write words am I saying the same thing as before but in a slightly different way? Like my paintings, I am tempted at this point, to be speechless, a little.
The journey is a continuation of the same journey; the new paintings reflecting the next ‘section’.
Each painting starts at a point of not knowing, not thinking; nothing. If you were to watch me in my ‘studio’ I think you might find it quite a joke! Sitting silently, ‘ half -hearing’, dithering, piecing bits together. Heaving large paintings around a tiny space, foraging for scraps of old paintings, shuffling around on my knees (causing callouses on my knees and feet!). All in order to make a stammering start. Painting and overpainting, I often find that the exploration leads me back to another portrait, another lone figure, until I recognise something fractionally new that utters itself into the painting and my heart responds. A tiny breakthrough... and so there is this
spiritual shuffle... both feeble and true.
It catches me unawares when, for example, a feather appears in my paintings and the feather feels like it is one of those tiny breakthroughs... but I am reluctant to ‘speak’ that, incase it becomes something other than it is.
Joy Wolfenden Brown, 2024
Please join us to celebrate the opening of two simultaneous solo exhibitions : Joy Wolfenden Brown 'Feather' and Carlos Zapata 'Nepantla' on Friday 6th, 6.30 - 8.30pm.
Harriet Beecher, American Author and Abolishionist, 1811-1896
Do words help? I don’t know. If I write words am I saying the same thing as before but in a slightly different way? Like my paintings, I am tempted at this point, to be speechless, a little.
The journey is a continuation of the same journey; the new paintings reflecting the next ‘section’.
Each painting starts at a point of not knowing, not thinking; nothing. If you were to watch me in my ‘studio’ I think you might find it quite a joke! Sitting silently, ‘ half -hearing’, dithering, piecing bits together. Heaving large paintings around a tiny space, foraging for scraps of old paintings, shuffling around on my knees (causing callouses on my knees and feet!). All in order to make a stammering start. Painting and overpainting, I often find that the exploration leads me back to another portrait, another lone figure, until I recognise something fractionally new that utters itself into the painting and my heart responds. A tiny breakthrough... and so there is this
spiritual shuffle... both feeble and true.
It catches me unawares when, for example, a feather appears in my paintings and the feather feels like it is one of those tiny breakthroughs... but I am reluctant to ‘speak’ that, incase it becomes something other than it is.
Joy Wolfenden Brown, 2024
Please join us to celebrate the opening of two simultaneous solo exhibitions : Joy Wolfenden Brown 'Feather' and Carlos Zapata 'Nepantla' on Friday 6th, 6.30 - 8.30pm.
