Jasmine Mowbray

Says Jasmine Mowbray of this work, "'Disappearing Act' combines plant structures, chance, and stained glass sensibilities. This work felt like a puzzle to compose with a spiral form finally emerging. It reminds me of Klimt."

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.