Jo March
For over thirty years Jo March has walked the remote off-road tracks that network the rolling fields and pastures around her home in southeast Cornwall. It is through the discovery of hidden and forgotten pathways that she has developed an intimate relationship with these ancient parishes, and these wanderings, combined with a degree in British history and a passion for poetry, have led Jo to a unique pastoral artistic vision.
Jo’s landscapes convey an ever-growing understanding of the history and power of our relationship with the British landscape as an adventure of the mind and spirit, unbridled and running free.
Former Brotherhood of Ruralists member Annie Ovenden praises the ‘exuberance, generosity and eccentric joy’ of Jo March’s work. We sense the physical sensation of walking within this landscape – the rise and fall of the land, and the twists and turns of our journey within it. Hedges and trees rise and fall ecstatically, whilst the perimeter of voluptuous fields and the secret paths and ditches plunge just out of view, suggesting hidden places. The eye is carried backwards and forwards through hedgerows, over stiles and walls, and along the herringbone rhythms of tractor tracks and narrow turnings inaccessible except by foot. Her compositions rejoice in the sinuous ‘serpentine line’, which William Hogarth described as the line of beauty which echoed the grace of a reclining body, with the outlines of hills, hedges and winding paths arching and spiralling as if around a cone.
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