The Sunbeam and the Storm

A press release from the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

JO BROWN: THE SUNBEAM AND THE STORM

Picture: ‘Blue Ice Curdling’ by Jo Brown

An exhibition of new work by Yorkshire-based artist Jo Brown will open at the Brontë Parsonage Museum on Friday 5 March 2010.

The exhibition, The Sunbeam and the Storm, will take place as part of the museum’s contemporary arts programme and will feature eight new abstract paintings by Jo Brown in direct response to the poems of Emily Brontë.

Jo Brown’s paintings are abstract and intuitive, and for this exhibition she has used colour, layers and mark making to create a personal response to Emily's poetry - in particular focusing on Emily’s use of weather to express emotion. All of the titles in the exhibition are small quotations taken from the poems.

Jo's inspiration has often been partly drawn from poetry. She discovered the poems of Emily Brontë relatively recently after attending an arts event in Haworth, and her imagination was caught. The poems seemed to Jo heartfelt and moving, and an insight into the mind of the solitary Emily.

All of the paintings in the exhibition are for sale. The exhibition runs until Tuesday 4 May 2010.

About Jo Brown
Jo Brown was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and studied in Yorkshire, at Bretton Hall College then Sheffield Hallam University, gaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 1995. She has been a studio artist at Dean Clough, Halifax since 1995 and has exhibited regularly at municipal and commercial galleries in England, Scotland and the USA. As well as the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Jo has upcoming exhibitions at Cupola Contemporary Art Gallery, Sheffield; Gossipgate Gallery, Alston, Cumbria; 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire and a solo show at Whitfield Fine Art, Mayfair, London (September 2010).

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontë Parsonage Museum