Tag: painterly landscapes

Jo Morris creates luminous dreamlike landscapes that blur the line between memory, atmosphere, and abstraction. Inspired by a lifetime spent moving through deserts, coastlines, mountains, and wide Australian skies, her paintings no longer document specific places but instead capture the emotional feeling of being within them. Working intuitively with water-based inks, watercolours, sprays, and pigments, she builds soft horizons and glowing layers where blues dissolve into purples, pinks into oranges, and landscapes drift gently between reality and imagination. Rather than painting directly from photographs, Jo works from memory, allowing emotion, light,…