Ink Study 2, 2019

<p><em>‘A love of working with my hands: drawing, painting and making things; plus a long-term interest in colour are essentially at the heart of what I do. My compositions employ a range of marks, shapes and patterns which have evolved over a number of years, with recurring themes of ellipses, circles, halos; borders, edges and layers, creating a sense of movement and depth of field enhanced by reactions of particular colour combinations. The finished images are consciously abstract and ambiguous. I want to create a sense of something as opposed to an identifiable object or picture.’</em> – Jo Barker, 2017.</p> <p>Public Collections include:</p> <p>V&A, London; The House of Lords, London; National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle; Scottish Executive, Edinburgh</p>