I'm Jo Liddle, an artist and print-maker, based on the North East coast of England.
I’ve been an artist as long as I can remember and the desire to create has driven me throughout my life. It led me into teaching, a career that I loved and that lasted over 30 years. However, as anyone who’s taught knows, it will take up all the time you have, and more.
Since retiring and moving back to the beautiful North East coast, I’ve had so much more time to devote to my own work and the inspiration and enthusiasm to develop different ideas usually means I have several projects on the go at the same time.
My current practice is based on personal narrative and history, loss and memory; exploring ideas of time passing and the trace, if any, that we leave behind.
Experiences and memories are layered and lost over time; fleeting and difficult to grasp. I try to recreate a sense of lost, or fading memories through the use various materials, often oil paint sometimes digital images, to build up a layered surface; removing and rubbing back to reveal a lost memory and creating a tension between the seen and the unseen, or almost seen.