Serenity is a strong undercurrent running throughout Joy's work, acting as an appealing counterbalance to the energetic and dynamic marks she uses to make the paintings.
Although my finished work is read as landscape, my process and my thinking is deeply rooted in the abstract.
I am fascinated by what happens when two or more colours collide and how I can curate that experience for the viewer to its best advantage through sensitive colour mixing and a careful ongoing response to each mark as it is laid down on the surface.
Like fitting together a jigsaw which I am making as I go along, I use many layers, subtracting and adding, erasing and enhancing until the composition comes into view.
In this freeing way, without my conscious intervention, a landscape will approach and ask to be nudged into being.
I'm not interested in making a pretty picture. For me, honesty of intention and the sheer joy of applying paint is the reason for my work to exist.
Joy Gosney is an artist born in Yorkshire, raised in Lincolnshire and now based in Nottinghamshire. She gained her BA in Illustration from the University of Kingston in 1999 and has been practicing in the fields of art, design and illustration commercially throughout her career.
Since 2021, working in acrylic paint and often combining elements of mark making using oil pastel and pencil, Joy's work has focused on the natural rhythm of landscape, which often emerges organically from an abstract underpainting.
Joy has exhibited her work in two solo shows and is currently preparing for a joint exhibition.
Her work is in private collections and was selected for two well-regarded open exhibitions in 2022.