PAINTING
‘Colour is a means of creating intervals; colour harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and colour tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony '
Hans Hofmann
At the time of making a picture, a picture should be made with feeling not knowing, the possibilities of the medium must be sensed by tapping into intuition and that inner sensibility in order to create an artwork which is free. Sequin’s painting collection is an exploration and expression of her inner landscape, a terrain unseen and invisible to the naked eye. The work aims to bring together out internal and external worlds. She uses colour, shape and form to express emotional planes experienced during the intimate act of creating in the studio. The works were created at the beginning of 2023 in Ibiza, Spain. The collection of acrylic and enamel paintings explore how colour can be used to express emotional states and complex feelings which can lay unspoken inside of us.
This collection is a delicate form of personal revelation and serves as a communication channel between the artists inner world and the outer landscape which surrounds her. The paintings bring to life new feelings, sensations and atmospheres which arise from the act of contemplation within the studio, an important part of her creative process. The paintings are a restorative act for the artist as they reveal an invisible journey of her own inner transformation. In the act of translating personal intimate feelings into abstract works the artist experiences a sense of peace and deeper connection to life itself through the movement of energy from the within to the outer.
Joanna is passionate about individual and collective healing through the power of art to further connect us; and to enliven our experience of what it is to be human. Her form of art-making connects with the hidden layers of the soul opening up a space for viewers to engage in their own inner landscape. The art acts as an invitation to becoming more receptive towards their own within and the beauty of their personal aloneness. Everyone’s response to colour and form is diverse and at the same time colour can function as a universal language and entry point to begin conversations around our own inner thoughts and feelings. There is a power in pigment; as colour is the quiet force which guides human life.