Art Review

Jodie’s printmaking addresses fundamental formal issues of making art. Jodie deals with colour, line, shape and texture, as well as pattern, repetition and contrast to deliver a message not only about the very act of design and creating, but about nature, own own unique environment, and the distinctive and cherished aspects of the ‘spirit of place’.
Jodie’s starting point is colour, the colours of her home environment on the farm near Boort in the Mallee; the colour of sky and sunset, the Boort lakes, bleached grass and muted gumleaf. Jodie’s motifs are very recognisable and very Australian. They remind me of the words of a poem written by a friend of mine, ‘these things have power, they are a binding spell, they keep me in the world’. And in the world I see through and beyond it.

Ken Thompson