Jo March was born in 1962 in Cornwall. Her young childhood was spent growing up in the South West of England on the family farm in the small Cornish moorland village of Darite. She studied at Sheffield University reading English and European History graduating in 1985 with a degree in History. She eventually returned to Cornish countryside and commenced painting. A self taught artist she is now recognised as one of the many gifted living artists in Cornwall.

Jo March's early childhood, spent in the beautiful and magical Cornish landscape, and the many people that she met remains a constant influence in her choice of subject and how she creates the landscapes in her art works. Inspiration for Jo's paintings is often drawn from the environment and the people of her childhood. She has abiding fascination with the eccentricities which exist just below the surface of rural life and in particular the characters that she observed in Cornwall whilst growing up.

Modern life is gradually and inexorably eroding age-old patterns of life and systems of belief. Jo March landscape paintings are an attempt to capture the essence of the bucolic farm land which has hitherto changed so little in Cornwall. The narrative landscapes Jo March creates, and the figures passing through them, are all inventions. They recall a 1960s childhood spent among the lanes, fields and farms of rural Caradon.

Talking about her paintings Jo says: “They are nostalgic tributes to the memory of people and places and a time when for all of us things were a little simpler." And, despite having spent thirty years as a professional artist, Jo adds: “Hand on heart, I’m still not sure what I’m doing.”

Imaginative, idiosyncratic and original, Jo March’s paintings are quintessentially Cornish. The result of having lived all her life in the area, coupled with a magical realist’s love of the macabre, the range of landscapes that Jo produces, peopled with super-real characters, are genuinely unique.

In addition to Red Rag modern art gallery Jo March art work has been exhibited at other leading British Art Galleries. Each painting at Red Rag is sourced from the Jo March artist studio and like all Red Rag British art and Contemporary art it can be shipped worldwide. In addition to original Jo March paintings her art work is also part of the Red Rag range of Limited Edition Prints.

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