Art & Culture
ARTIST AT WORK
No. 42 Jo Denbury, Hawk I, 29cm H, Bronze Resin, £550
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y earliest memories are working with clay in Mike Geary’s studio and long days roaming the Dorset countryside with nature as my friend. I intended to go to art school, but work intervened. Instead, I became absorbed by theatre and joined the RSC at the age of 22. The film and TV industry followed with Working Title films in the early 90s. By then I had begun to write more seriously and joined Elle Decoration and then the Telegraph Magazine as associate editor. Much of my work involved championing designers and giving them a platform to express their work but deep down I knew my own work was beckoning. When I returned to Dorset I rediscovered my own practice. I work from a live subject, to interpret what I see through my hands into the clay. I never try to mirror nature – instead, I attempt to create what it leaves me with. It’s the same with my paintings. I 6 | Sherborne Times | May 2022
paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me which become transformed. In all my work it’s the story that interests me the most. @jodenbury_art Jo’s work will be on show alongside photographic work by Graham Booth as part of Dorset Art Weeks (venue 23). ___________________________________________ 14th - 29th May Dorset Art Weeks Venue 23 – Graham Booth and Jo Denbury Yew Tree Barn, Yew Tree House, Hermitage Lane, Hermitage, DT2 7BB. Painting, photography and sculpture. Wednesday Friday 12am-5pm, weekends 10am-5pm
Graham: 07798 525013, Jo: 07968 949155 yewtreeart.co.uk dorsetartweeks.co.uk
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