"The Moon Glows the Same"
Matsuo Bashō, 1687
Sherrie-Leigh Jones is an Artist and Printmaker based in Brighton, East Sussex. She creates limited editions and original landscape prints inspired by nature, travel and changing seasons, offering the viewer a sense of escapism, a transportation to a new place and a journey through imagined landscapes.
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To create her prints, she assembles analogue and digital collages using her travel photographs and photos taken on walks in the English countryside, which are then combined with paintings, and occasionally found imagery. The finished compositions are then taken into the print studio and the final artworks are hand printed by the artist using printmaking techniques and processes such as screenprinting and cellulose transfer printing.
For Jones’ recent series of prints, inspiration has been taken from the Japanese woodblock printmaking art movement known as Shin-hanga (New prints), which merged together Ukiyo-e traditions from the East with European influences. She also has a continuous series of contemporary Japanese and Chinese style prints that are inspired by traditional Japanese and Chinese landscape paintings, and in particular, Sansuiga (Japan) or Shanshui (China); paintings which depict an idealised landscape, primarily using the forms of mountains, rivers, clouds and mist.
Her landscapes exude peace and tranquillity - a kind of floating worlds - captivating our attention with their beauty and meditative qualities. Japanese aesthetics encompass ancient ideals centred around transience and imperfection. These principles support much of Japanese culture and aesthetic norms on what is perceived tasteful and beautiful and have become an integral part of daily life, compared, to Western societies, where the concept of aesthetics is comprehended as a philosophy. According to Chinese beliefs the notion of aesthetics informed the development of the country’s cultural and psychological structures and portray humanity.
Sherrie-Leigh Jones graduated from the University of Brighton in 2012 with a BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking degree and she exhibits widely in the UK and internationally. In 2020, she was awarded an a-n Bursary: Time Space Money, supported by a-n The Artists Information Company and Arts Council England, and in 2018 was invited to be a part of Woolwich Contemporary Editions, who work with the most exciting international contemporary printmakers. In 2015, Jones was awarded a Print Futures Award and in 2013, her SS13 collaboration with fashion label, To Be Adored (tba), featured on the front cover of Grazia China. Her work is held in collections worldwide.
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Newsletter: Courtesy and ©Sherrie-Leigh Jones and Renée Pfister (text) 2021.
Video: Courtesy and ©Sherrie-Leigh Jones, The Inspiration by Keys of Moon https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/ (music) and Renée Pfister, with the assistance of Eleonora Guidi, 2021. All rights reserved.
Image: Sherrie-Leigh Jones, Midsummer Moon, 2021, screenprint with graphite powder and ink on 300gsm Somerset soft white satin paper with a deckled edge, H380 mm x W285 mm, print size 200 mm diameter, edition of 10.
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