Landscape
Interrogating landscapes 2014
Work centred around Abbotsbury Hill Fort made during winter and early spring 2014. Exhibited as part of Dorset Visual Arts 'Interrogating Landscapes' project at Bridport Art Centre.
Work centred around Abbotsbury Hill Fort made during winter and early spring 2014. Exhibited as part of Dorset Visual Arts 'Interrogating Landscapes' project at Bridport Art Centre.
'Ridgeway, Places and Spaces' 2011 - (ongoing project)
"Jindra Jehu has a passion for working directly and spontaneously in the environment. She enjoys the experience of having to work with urgency and within the physical constraints of a location, and the impact the process has upon her work.
Since the beginning of January, Jindra has returned at intervals to work on and around the South Dorset Ridgeway, a broad chalky ridge near her home. The ridge is peppered with earthworks, evidence of the cultural and ritual significance the location held for the Neolithic and Bronze Age peoples. It forms a dominant boundary between the sea and the land and is a place greatly affected by the weather, shrouded in low cloud, blasted by wind or bathed in light.
For the first half of the year she worked in this visually and emotionally dynamic environment between 3 weekly cycles of chemotherapy. Since then she has continued to be drawn to the ridge and the area surrounding it, the process of working outside and in the elements, continuing to be part of an ongoing healing process.
She works directly in ink and acrylic washes, overlain with oil pastel and bar and Indian ink, which is applied using materials such as gorse sticks and seaweed to create marks that evoke the qualities of the surroundings." October 2011
"Jindra Jehu has a passion for working directly and spontaneously in the environment. She enjoys the experience of having to work with urgency and within the physical constraints of a location, and the impact the process has upon her work.
Since the beginning of January, Jindra has returned at intervals to work on and around the South Dorset Ridgeway, a broad chalky ridge near her home. The ridge is peppered with earthworks, evidence of the cultural and ritual significance the location held for the Neolithic and Bronze Age peoples. It forms a dominant boundary between the sea and the land and is a place greatly affected by the weather, shrouded in low cloud, blasted by wind or bathed in light.
For the first half of the year she worked in this visually and emotionally dynamic environment between 3 weekly cycles of chemotherapy. Since then she has continued to be drawn to the ridge and the area surrounding it, the process of working outside and in the elements, continuing to be part of an ongoing healing process.
She works directly in ink and acrylic washes, overlain with oil pastel and bar and Indian ink, which is applied using materials such as gorse sticks and seaweed to create marks that evoke the qualities of the surroundings." October 2011
Balenbouche 2011
In July/August 2011 I was fortunate to be able to stay at the Balenbouche Plantation on the southern coast of St Lucia. The work I produced in the two weeks I was there was influenced by the lush overgrown vegetation, sound and the drama of the extreme weather; storms, torrential rain, heat and humidity.
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