Jo Chate

ABOUT

Jo Chate’s practice is concerned with exploring the space between the real and the imagined. The paintings fuse reality with fictional narrative. They are largely landscape based with the feel of memory - roaming through urban environs, inhabited spaces, parklands, edgelands; things seen, momentary glimpses.

Using photography to initially capture such fragments it is during the process of painting that transformation occurs. The everyday slips and subtly shifts towards something less familiar, allowing the space for a new kind of reality to emerge.

The most recent paintings explore a more vibrant, vivid palette - using colour they are thinking towards a brighter, different not too distant future.