JO BARRETT is well known for her
impeccably rendered photo-realist oil paintings. By focusing on
still-lives and landscapes, she reworks a traditional subject
matter into a very contemporary format.
Barrett's outsized works are derived from her own photography;
that is, either fruit still-lives from the studio or rural
landscapes taken from a moving vehicle. As a result her
paintings maintain rudimentary photographic elements such as
increased depth of field or implied movement resulting from
using a slower than usual shutter-speed.
Barrett's painting method is unusual, in painting wet on wet to
completion from one side of the canvas to the other. Her
technique displays a virtuoso skill in handling and observation.
Through these means we are forced to re-assess our notions of
the ordinary and the commonplace as the artist beautifies the
usual and the familiar with impeccable expertise.
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