In the studio 2025. Photo by Yanis Angel
Also coming soon to Artsy . We’ll be launching this new collaboration at They Come They Sit They Go Project Space, Finch Cafe, 12 Sidworth St, London Fields, London E8 3 SD.
PV Friday 6th May, 6 pm till late.
About my Work.
I’m a London-based abstract painter whose work is inspired by urban landscape, architecture and the grid as a hard-edged planar device, which in my paintings is often contrasted with painterly gesture or ‘handwriting’. Colour and its ability to summon past memory, experience and sense of place also plays a part.
Other influences include music and story telling; some paintings could be described as process-led, non-linear visual diary entries in response to a given mood or state of mind.
Artwork titles are arrived at intuitively, evolving from snatches of conversation, prose or song lyrics, or from past recollections and preoccupations that imbue within the work.
My works on canvas, wood, aluminium and paper are featured on several online gallery platforms: Art Gazette, Rise Art
For all artwork enquiries please email : johanna_melvin@hotmail.com
A group show curated by Patrick Lears, about how these 5 artists navigate material processes… Exhibition runs 3rd to 13th July. PV on the 3rd 6 - 8pm at APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA.
Image by Alice Peillon .
News & exhibitions
2025
Coming soon… further details about Postcards for Seyðisfjörður, a mail art project in collaboration with Sluice and LungA School, Iceland. Organised by H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G.
I’m delighted to currently be curating an exhibition for Terrace Gallery at the beautiful Lea Bridge Library Pavilion. The exhibition ‘Vice Versa’ is a survey by means of comparison, contrast and potential dialogue between two worlds: the worlds of hard-edged and free-form abstraction.
Location : Terrace Gallery, Lea Bridge Library, London E10 7HU, PV 7 may 6:30 - 8pm. Open daily 10 to 4 pm and invigilated Sat/Sun.
I’m delighted to have two paintings included in ‘The Scene by the Sea’ an exhibition mapping Southend-on Sea’s musical history in celebration of the Thames Group of Artists 10th Anniversary.
The exhibition opens on Friday 23rd May at The Beecroft Art Gallery, The Old Central Library, Victoria Ave, Southend-On-Sea, SS2 6EX. (Gallery is closed on Monday and Tuesday.)