Jodi Clark is an artist based in Whanganui, she spent three years at Whanganui School of Fine Arts and graduated from Elam, Auckland in 2002. She uses line and composition to make strong statements of form and the complexities of visual language.
Jodi’s current works are an exploration of colour, modernism, decoration and the syntax of shapes. Her work process is intrinsic to the end product, hundreds of sketches are made in a fairly un-calculated, free-flowing way - each one informing the next - and are edited down to a select few as a starting point for paintings to be born.
Jodi has a love of words, design and symbology, and a commitment to not asking the viewer to look too far beyond the foundational use of colour, potentially the most important component of art-making.
As one of Jodi’s heroes Lee Krasner is quoted to say: "Colour for me is a very mysterious thing. I insist on letting it go the way it's going to go. The result can be an exuberantly playful and a wild thing moving through life to its own rhythm".
