Description

Jonas Wood. Landscape Pot with Plant (2017). Edition of 100. 16 colour screen print on 410gsm Somerset tub sized Satin Enhanced White gsm paper. Printed by Coriander Press, London. 100 x 75 cm (39 x 29.5 in). Signed, numbered and dated by the artist. Jonas Wood’s paintings and works on paper display overlapping textures and disorienting compressions of space; the intimate settings invoke the work of forebears such as Matisse and Hockney, yet his distorted verdant rooms possess an affectless cut-out appearance all his own. In drawings, collages, watercolors, and paintings, outlines of pots and vases frame landscape and interior imagery. Drawn and painted vessels set against neutral backgrounds contain a sprawling green golf course; a coral reef with exotic fish; a lush garden; a painter’s studio, all scenes that end abruptly at the parameters of the object.