Jasmine Mowbray

Says Jasmine Mowbray of this work, ""Mineral matter, falling water and refractions of light direct this painting. In 'Chandelier', gravity works alongside the minerals and pigments that form its surface, creating a ballast that contrasts with the light reflected in the falling water."

Mowbray's paintings are built through slow acts of layering, scraping, staining and removal; oil, acrylic, pumice, and mixed media absorb into or resist the surface, positive and negative space continually exchanging roles. Construction grids become supports for climbing weeds; reflections collapse sky and earth onto a single surface. Many forms surface through pareidolia — the mind's tendency to find images within ambiguity — arising not from a preconceived end, but from the process itself. Rather than referencing a particular place, the paintings construct landscapes assembled from experience, imagination and accumulated looking.