September 2020
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
Jinson Joseph
ARTIST STATEMENT
Memory, Moment & Images
My imagination and creativity are influenced by different oral histories pertaining to
farming and agriculture. Those beautiful stories were narrated by different people
around me, and they always included vivid descriptions of the pastoral beauty of my
native state Kerala, located in India. Those narrations used to end on a note of anxiety
as there was a possibility that urbanization could alter the bucolic landscape of Kerala.
When I was a teenager in the mid 2000s, I could witness this geographic shift in my
hometown, Kochi. This transitional landscape inspired me to capture the allure of the
shrinking rustic terrain around me through my paintings and written work .My creative journey has been reinforced by the discovery of a personal diary which was written by my grandfather in the 1940s. I was fascinated by his usual day to day anecdotes, and placed myself in that flashback setting to get a vintage feel of the landscape. As a result, the domestic materials which he sketched in his narrations became a physical surface that helped me develop a novel artistic expression.
In this creative urge, my artistic attempt was to establish a visible and invisible relation between landscapes and human beings. To put it briefly, my creative journey is a sum of different artistic experimentations.
The beginning of my artistic preoccupations started with the exploration of water colour on paper of my hometown, Kochi. My present water colour paintings deal with the local landscape of the British Virgin Islands where I am currently working .The landscape which I have specifically chosen for this project are the left over sceneries after the hurricane Irma devastation across Caribbean islands in 2017.
Most of these paintings are articulated with the fusion of both the absurd and a
predetermined set of artistic skills.The binary being emerges in my watercolor paintings through a stable blend of its inherent spontaneity and the controlled brush strokes on the natural surfaces of paper. The treatment of pictorial surface and the usage of brush strokes in my painting can be very well compared to an unexpected drop of ink on the pristine white school uniform of a child. The child may impulsively try to blot, scratch or wash off the stain, but it only creates a bigger mark. In my process of creativity, I deliberately explore a sense of improvisation. As a result, an intuitive layer of water colour stain takes on different forms in my artwork.
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
Jinson Joseph
ARTIST STATEMENT
Memory, Moment & Images
My imagination and creativity are influenced by different oral histories pertaining to
farming and agriculture. Those beautiful stories were narrated by different people
around me, and they always included vivid descriptions of the pastoral beauty of my
native state Kerala, located in India. Those narrations used to end on a note of anxiety
as there was a possibility that urbanization could alter the bucolic landscape of Kerala.
When I was a teenager in the mid 2000s, I could witness this geographic shift in my
hometown, Kochi. This transitional landscape inspired me to capture the allure of the
shrinking rustic terrain around me through my paintings and written work .My creative journey has been reinforced by the discovery of a personal diary which was written by my grandfather in the 1940s. I was fascinated by his usual day to day anecdotes, and placed myself in that flashback setting to get a vintage feel of the landscape. As a result, the domestic materials which he sketched in his narrations became a physical surface that helped me develop a novel artistic expression.
In this creative urge, my artistic attempt was to establish a visible and invisible relation between landscapes and human beings. To put it briefly, my creative journey is a sum of different artistic experimentations.
The beginning of my artistic preoccupations started with the exploration of water colour on paper of my hometown, Kochi. My present water colour paintings deal with the local landscape of the British Virgin Islands where I am currently working .The landscape which I have specifically chosen for this project are the left over sceneries after the hurricane Irma devastation across Caribbean islands in 2017.
Most of these paintings are articulated with the fusion of both the absurd and a
predetermined set of artistic skills.The binary being emerges in my watercolor paintings through a stable blend of its inherent spontaneity and the controlled brush strokes on the natural surfaces of paper. The treatment of pictorial surface and the usage of brush strokes in my painting can be very well compared to an unexpected drop of ink on the pristine white school uniform of a child. The child may impulsively try to blot, scratch or wash off the stain, but it only creates a bigger mark. In my process of creativity, I deliberately explore a sense of improvisation. As a result, an intuitive layer of water colour stain takes on different forms in my artwork.
Born in 1979, Jinson Joseph obtained his Bachelor’s degree in painting from RLV College Tripunithura, Kerala and His Master’s degree in painting from University of Hyderabad, India , in 2003and 2005 respectively. In 2019Rhe has completed a certificate course titled the Culture and History of British Virgin Islands from the Institute of Virgin Islands Studies, The H. Lavity Stoutt Community College British Virgin Islands, University of West Indies. Past one decade he has been teaching different schools in India and abroad. His artist in residency participation includes the 2017- The 6th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Programme in Sunamgonj, Bangladesh. Sanarbah artist residency in Silvasa 2010 Gujarat. His selected exhibitions includes 2012-Roti Kapada aur Makkan, Ojas Art Center New Delhi • 2012-PO10TIAL’, Kalakruti art Gallery Hyderabad • 2012-A4 Arple, Gallery Ragini New Delhi 2010: A Long Short Cut, Gallery Hasta, Hyderabad • 2009: Pixel project, Unknown artist virtual Museum Portugal • 2010-Virtual Space, unknown artist virtual Museum Portugal • 2010: Sanarbh Group show, Silvassa Art Gallery, Gujarat • 2011: Art Bangalore at Artville gallery Bangalore • 2010: Colored Horizon Curate by Gallery Sriparvathi, Chennai • 2009: Queer Craft, Gay and Lesbian center at Los Angeles • 2008: Water mark curate by Unknown artist virtual Museum Portugal • 2005- Artist in residence with Atul Dodiya at University of Hyderabad • 2000,02,11Kerala Lalithakala Academy annul exhibition, Durbar hall gallery Cochin As an art educator He has attended different IBO ( International Baccalaureate )professional development teacher training workshops Presently, he lives and works in British Virgin Islands.
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