Jo Ferry

Jo Ferry's artistic practice is profoundly shaped by her upbringing on the Canadian prairies, extensive travels, and career as an energy healer and educator. Her early engagement with fibre arts, feminist perspective, and experience as a scenic artist in the film and television industry further inform her work. Creating and destroying are integral to Jo’s artistic practice.

In her earlier work, this duality manifested literally by cutting up paintings and drawings, rearranging them into collages. These then inspired  2-D and 3-D relief paintings, constructed from found wood. In recent abstract works, this process plays a more subtle role, with layers of paint and mixed media materials that both hide and reveal the previous layers.

Driven by a deep intuitive connection, her art is reflected in her diverse artistic repertoire.  Including abstraction, cityscapes, landscapes, portraits, and mixed media. She continually seeks new methods of expression, demonstrating versatility across genres.