Jowonder Founder
The trickery of magic able to be used in paintings and prints, helps me express a mismatch that I have always felt with reality. Allowing me to find a freedom and a form of play in imaginary worlds.
For both poetry and paintings, I use pareidolia; the tendency to perceive meaningful patterns, creatures, animals, and humans, in random or ambiguous situations. Often working on more than one canvas at once, creating a link between them resulting in a final diptych or triptych.
During painting both embellishment and sublimation, creation and destruction takes place. In both my poetry and painting, the final work shows traces of the pareidolia technique, helping the viewer or reader to enjoy observing traces of this in the works, thus prompting a pareidolia experience.
While painting, or making poetry, my brain's narrative recognition system is highly active and the medium (words or paint) helps me constantly see new associations which help with making the work. The pareidolia technique for poetry can occur in the middle of the night allowing a poem to be completed in minutes. However making a painting can take a few months, due to the necessity for paint drying periods between applications.
2025- 2025-February, a part of an exibition called “EXI,” in the Crypt Gallery London, UK. Curated by Evelyn J Marshall. Looking at the viewer and the artist’s interpretation of existence.
2025-featured in the Riveraine Muse, a half-yearly magazine of Literature, Arts and Culture. three poems and images chosen by Debasish Lahiri: https://theriverainemuse.com/
2025- The Clockwisecat, Issue 44. Poems and illustrations: Elvis and Prayers For the Lonely, Chosen by Alison Ross.
https://clockwisecat.com/2025/02/issue-44-clockwise-mat-riarchy/
2024 - 'Surrealist Poems About Clocks,' published by Suphur Editions, drawings and poetry and complete Jowonder works about time.
2024- L’age D’ore Event Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, May 2024, an underground exhibition based on the film L’Âge d’or. The french surrealistic satirical comedy from by Luis Bunuel in collaboration with Salvador Dali. An eclectic exhibition of contemporary interpretations of some of the themes of the film such as: humanization, destruction, confusion, passion, fear, oppression and isolation.
2023- She was a part of the international contemporary survey of surrealism at the Crypt Gallery London. 2023 her paintings were selected to be a part of the London Art Biennale.
2021 Apocalypse Biennale marking the cancelled Venice Biennale by celebrating the art of the Apocalypse: revisiting Albrecht Durer's 15th Century woodcuts and showing new work from contemporary European artists. Venice Italy.
2020 - part of Dear Christine (a Tribute to Christine Keeler), shown Arthouse 1, London, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK.
2019 - The inaugural Wales Contemporary Exhibition, showcasing painting, drawing and original prints by national and international artists), Waterfront Gallery, Wales, UK Mall Galleries, London.
Installation and video work:
2007-'6 Days Goodbye Poems Of Ophelia' project. The project is a living painting in bacteria, a re-telling of the story of Ophelia's death depicted in John Everett Millais' oil painting; seeing her death as a form of beautiful transformation a return to the land. The work uses the movement of live bacteria for animation and was created in a sterile laboratory, (commissioned by The Wellcome Trust, science by Dr Simon Park), the poetic soundtracks to the animations, created by the public with some of the international poetry soundscapes are still in process.
2007 Flatlanders, an animated video installation premiered in Guildford Cathedral alongside a debate which included, herself and physicists Dr Brian Cox and Dr Jim al Khalili, 'Is Science The New Religion?' The work referenced the ancient Greek character of Themis, in connection with the launch of the epic experiment at CERN, incorporating sound taken from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.(thanks to Milton Mermikides for sounds).
Performance:-
2023 - as a part of the international exhibition of contemporary surrealism, "L'AGE D'ORE" at the Crypt Gallery London, 'Self Coronation of a Monkey. A satire of the royal coronation during the same weekend.
Jowonder And The Psychic Tea Leaves, an audience interactive performance in the manner of a mock Victorian Séance; using humour as a central device, incorporating improvisation. A chosen member of the audience drinks a cup of tea -and the process unravels. Some venues have been: St John on Bethnal Green, Cabaret Futura, Courtyard Theatre and End Of The Pier Show, live music chronologically thanks to: Billy Smith, Jowe Head, Ansuman Biswas and Andrew Hedges.
Erwin Schrodinger was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist who developed a thought experiment called "Schrodinger's cat" where because of the problem with depicting something as both a particle and a wave, he created the ironic story about a cat being both alive and dead.
Curatorial Bookery Gallery, London, Schrodinger's Cat 2022.
I curated an exhibition on the theme of Schrodinger’s Cat in 2022, which included 21 visual artists , and took place at the Bookery Gallerie, London; Made possible with the kind help, generosity, and advice of Rosemary Walbancke and Ron Briefel, for their gallery and invaluable input, and in part to an Institute of Physics (a Public Engagement Grant Scheme funded project 2019).
Digital Exhibition catalogue 'Schrodinger's Cat'(graphic design by D Kintsugi) please click image below to download/view PDF
For both poetry and paintings, I use pareidolia; the tendency to perceive meaningful patterns, creatures, animals, and humans, in random or ambiguous situations. Often working on more than one canvas at once, creating a link between them resulting in a final diptych or triptych.
During painting both embellishment and sublimation, creation and destruction takes place. In both my poetry and painting, the final work shows traces of the pareidolia technique, helping the viewer or reader to enjoy observing traces of this in the works, thus prompting a pareidolia experience.
While painting, or making poetry, my brain's narrative recognition system is highly active and the medium (words or paint) helps me constantly see new associations which help with making the work. The pareidolia technique for poetry can occur in the middle of the night allowing a poem to be completed in minutes. However making a painting can take a few months, due to the necessity for paint drying periods between applications.
2025- 2025-February, a part of an exibition called “EXI,” in the Crypt Gallery London, UK. Curated by Evelyn J Marshall. Looking at the viewer and the artist’s interpretation of existence.
2025-featured in the Riveraine Muse, a half-yearly magazine of Literature, Arts and Culture. three poems and images chosen by Debasish Lahiri: https://theriverainemuse.com/
2025- The Clockwisecat, Issue 44. Poems and illustrations: Elvis and Prayers For the Lonely, Chosen by Alison Ross.
https://clockwisecat.com/2025/02/issue-44-clockwise-mat-riarchy/
2024 - 'Surrealist Poems About Clocks,' published by Suphur Editions, drawings and poetry and complete Jowonder works about time.
2024- L’age D’ore Event Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, May 2024, an underground exhibition based on the film L’Âge d’or. The french surrealistic satirical comedy from by Luis Bunuel in collaboration with Salvador Dali. An eclectic exhibition of contemporary interpretations of some of the themes of the film such as: humanization, destruction, confusion, passion, fear, oppression and isolation.
2023- She was a part of the international contemporary survey of surrealism at the Crypt Gallery London. 2023 her paintings were selected to be a part of the London Art Biennale.
2021 Apocalypse Biennale marking the cancelled Venice Biennale by celebrating the art of the Apocalypse: revisiting Albrecht Durer's 15th Century woodcuts and showing new work from contemporary European artists. Venice Italy.
2020 - part of Dear Christine (a Tribute to Christine Keeler), shown Arthouse 1, London, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK.
2019 - The inaugural Wales Contemporary Exhibition, showcasing painting, drawing and original prints by national and international artists), Waterfront Gallery, Wales, UK Mall Galleries, London.
Installation and video work:
2007-'6 Days Goodbye Poems Of Ophelia' project. The project is a living painting in bacteria, a re-telling of the story of Ophelia's death depicted in John Everett Millais' oil painting; seeing her death as a form of beautiful transformation a return to the land. The work uses the movement of live bacteria for animation and was created in a sterile laboratory, (commissioned by The Wellcome Trust, science by Dr Simon Park), the poetic soundtracks to the animations, created by the public with some of the international poetry soundscapes are still in process.
2007 Flatlanders, an animated video installation premiered in Guildford Cathedral alongside a debate which included, herself and physicists Dr Brian Cox and Dr Jim al Khalili, 'Is Science The New Religion?' The work referenced the ancient Greek character of Themis, in connection with the launch of the epic experiment at CERN, incorporating sound taken from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.(thanks to Milton Mermikides for sounds).
Performance:-
2023 - as a part of the international exhibition of contemporary surrealism, "L'AGE D'ORE" at the Crypt Gallery London, 'Self Coronation of a Monkey. A satire of the royal coronation during the same weekend.
Jowonder And The Psychic Tea Leaves, an audience interactive performance in the manner of a mock Victorian Séance; using humour as a central device, incorporating improvisation. A chosen member of the audience drinks a cup of tea -and the process unravels. Some venues have been: St John on Bethnal Green, Cabaret Futura, Courtyard Theatre and End Of The Pier Show, live music chronologically thanks to: Billy Smith, Jowe Head, Ansuman Biswas and Andrew Hedges.
Erwin Schrodinger was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist who developed a thought experiment called "Schrodinger's cat" where because of the problem with depicting something as both a particle and a wave, he created the ironic story about a cat being both alive and dead.
Curatorial Bookery Gallery, London, Schrodinger's Cat 2022.
I curated an exhibition on the theme of Schrodinger’s Cat in 2022, which included 21 visual artists , and took place at the Bookery Gallerie, London; Made possible with the kind help, generosity, and advice of Rosemary Walbancke and Ron Briefel, for their gallery and invaluable input, and in part to an Institute of Physics (a Public Engagement Grant Scheme funded project 2019).
Digital Exhibition catalogue 'Schrodinger's Cat'(graphic design by D Kintsugi) please click image below to download/view PDF
