Jowonder Founder
Dame Marina Warner, has commended my fairy tales in my animated films for their subversive use of narrative in her book about fairy tales: 'From the Beast to Blonde.’
I work across several mediums, including: animation, painting, performance, print, book art and poetry. I use my artistic practice as a way for honing my mind to work a spell with an image, just as a tarot reader might do. Finding poetry in the mythology and folklore, unexpected juxtapositions, uncanny atmospheres, and illogical pairings. Many of my recent images include a unicorn, which I see as a symbol of awakening.
I wish to startle with the miniature, the detailed, the playful and the haunted. To counter art-world ostentation with something more hidden. I am a great admirer of William Blake's miniature painting, 'Ghost of a Flea.'
As well as paintings and print works, I have completed a colourful illustrated book, for both children and adults, revelling in puzzles, philosophical conundrums and musings on transience, time and magic. It includes over a hundred illustrations; using the language of mythology and folklore to establish the unicorn as an archetypal symbol of awakening.
My paintings have come to the notice of art critic Jan Woolf, who describes my visual art as; 'possessing "vitality and mystery" akin to lyrical magical realism, evoking Expressionist techniques through distortion and emotive colour.'
2026, participated in the "EXI" exhibition at Crypt Gallery, St Pancras, London, UK. "The Riveraine Muse" published three poems and artworks.— images included in the ‘Mystics and Saints’ issue for the Sabre Tooth Magazine.
2025-collaborating with ‘Wearesweetart,’ participated, 'Art Car Boot Fair,' London -Feature in the international magazine: Clockwisecat, the Riveraine Muse, a half-yearly magazine of Literature, Arts and Culture. three poems and images chosen by Debasish Lahiri, the Clockwisecat, Issue 44. Poems and illustrations: Elvis and Prayers For the Lonely, Chosen by Alison Ross.
2024 - 'Surrealist Poems About Clocks,' published by Suphur Editions, first solo book of poetry.
2024- L’age D’ore Event Barcelona, Barcelona. 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-'L'age D'Ore' Crypt Gallery London. Also a part of the London Art Biennale.
2021 Apocalypse Biennale marking the cancelled Venice Biennale revisiting Albrecht Durer's 15th Century woodcuts and showing new work from contemporary European artists. Venice, Italy.
2019 -2020 - 'Dear Christine' (a Tribute to Christine Keeler) an arts council funded tour the UK to: Arthouse 1, London, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK and Vane Gallery Gateshead.
2019 - Wales Contemporary 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 work.
2023 - a par "L'AGE D'ORE" Crypt Gallery London, 'Self Coronation of a Monkey. A satire of the royal coronation.
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 developed a thought experiment called "Schrodinger's cat"
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 of the Bookery Gallery 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
I work across several mediums, including: animation, painting, performance, print, book art and poetry. I use my artistic practice as a way for honing my mind to work a spell with an image, just as a tarot reader might do. Finding poetry in the mythology and folklore, unexpected juxtapositions, uncanny atmospheres, and illogical pairings. Many of my recent images include a unicorn, which I see as a symbol of awakening.
I wish to startle with the miniature, the detailed, the playful and the haunted. To counter art-world ostentation with something more hidden. I am a great admirer of William Blake's miniature painting, 'Ghost of a Flea.'
As well as paintings and print works, I have completed a colourful illustrated book, for both children and adults, revelling in puzzles, philosophical conundrums and musings on transience, time and magic. It includes over a hundred illustrations; using the language of mythology and folklore to establish the unicorn as an archetypal symbol of awakening.
My paintings have come to the notice of art critic Jan Woolf, who describes my visual art as; 'possessing "vitality and mystery" akin to lyrical magical realism, evoking Expressionist techniques through distortion and emotive colour.'
2026, participated in the "EXI" exhibition at Crypt Gallery, St Pancras, London, UK. "The Riveraine Muse" published three poems and artworks.— images included in the ‘Mystics and Saints’ issue for the Sabre Tooth Magazine.
2025-collaborating with ‘Wearesweetart,’ participated, 'Art Car Boot Fair,' London -Feature in the international magazine: Clockwisecat, the Riveraine Muse, a half-yearly magazine of Literature, Arts and Culture. three poems and images chosen by Debasish Lahiri, the Clockwisecat, Issue 44. Poems and illustrations: Elvis and Prayers For the Lonely, Chosen by Alison Ross.
2024 - 'Surrealist Poems About Clocks,' published by Suphur Editions, first solo book of poetry.
2024- L’age D’ore Event Barcelona, Barcelona. 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-'L'age D'Ore' Crypt Gallery London. Also a part of the London Art Biennale.
2021 Apocalypse Biennale marking the cancelled Venice Biennale revisiting Albrecht Durer's 15th Century woodcuts and showing new work from contemporary European artists. Venice, Italy.
2019 -2020 - 'Dear Christine' (a Tribute to Christine Keeler) an arts council funded tour the UK to: Arthouse 1, London, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK and Vane Gallery Gateshead.
2019 - Wales Contemporary 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 work.
2023 - a par "L'AGE D'ORE" Crypt Gallery London, 'Self Coronation of a Monkey. A satire of the royal coronation.
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 developed a thought experiment called "Schrodinger's cat"
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 of the Bookery Gallery 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
