Jo Wilmot

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Showroom 2, 185 x 165 cm, 2007
Jo Wilmot lives and works in London.

She paints cars, fast expensive ones.


Red, 30 x 30 cm, 2008

Playing with paint to create claustrophobic scenes, she also generates a tension between the gestural handling and her sleek subject - the ultimate consumer object - the car. Her painterly technique constructs work which is dark and foreboding, frequently heading towards abstraction.

Wilmot�s paintings are generally flat with passages of glossy, built-up areas and with visceral areas of crusty paint


Although employing a high-impact, painterly approach, this series is understated with a cinematic air. There�s a sense of a stalled narrative at work in Wilmot�s paintings, asking, �What next?.......�







There's a seductive nature to luxury cars; a dangerous edge to these powerful machines. While Jo Wilmot�s paintings celebrate this material desire they also seem slightly detached, even cynical.

Wilmot is a painter who revels in the medium.




Headlight 2, 45 x 30 cm, 2008
London
United Kingdom
Europe

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