The inspirationfor Jocelyn Jacobson Cole’s colourful, humerous paintings is Africa. She was brought up in Zimbabwe; lived for many years in both Botswana and South Africa; and has travelled extensively throughout most of the southern Africa countries including Namibia, Mozambique and Swaziland. Her enduring love for her homeland shows through her work.
“My work is figurative. I place African wild life, and their human co-habitees, into whimsical, humorous, almost surreal, narratives. Many people have commented that the distant expressions on the faces in my paintings have a spiritual quality to them. Although this is not intentional on my part, I do like the idea that my paintings convey a calming quality – especially in a world that is overloaded with tension, anxiety, pain and negative media. I wish to counteract this negativity by lifting the viewers’ spirits through their enjoyment of the colour, humour and sense of narrative that my work contains. Occasionally, social issues find their way into my work but these issues are generalised and their ambiguity has often generated some interesting thoughts and discussion.”
Jocelyn Jacobson Cole trained in textiles, which is clear to see from her use of colour and love of pattern. Nowadays she prefers to express herself through acrylic painting – on board or canvas – which allows her to interpret, more fully, her African experiences. Her work is in much demand for its atmospheric, serene, calm, witty and amusing take on the continent that she so clearly loves.
Recent exhibitions have included Eastern Arts Open 2008 and 2010, Norfolk Open Studios 2008/09/10, Obsidian Arts “Out of Africa” in Buckinghamshire 2009/10, The Coach House in Guernsey 2009, The Untitled Art Fair in London 2009, Rawvision in Cape Town, SA 2010, Becketts Chapel, Wymondham 2011.
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