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Jo Lillywhite "Where Light Leads"

Where Light Leads is a collection of contemporary landscape paintings by Jo Lillywhite, all about what happens when sunlight finds its way into a wood and the colour goes up a notch. Woodland avenues, glowing glades, wide open views. They’re places you’ll recognise, just a little brighter than you remember.

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Start with a path. Nearly every painting here has one, whether it’s a trail of sunlit ferns or an avenue of trees curving overhead, and your eye is following it before you’ve decided to look. That’s Jo’s doing. She uses strong perspective and confident, expressive brushwork to draw you in, then leaves you wondering what’s just around the bend.

These landscapes come from the British countryside, but Jo isn’t trying to copy it. A wood is still recognisably a wood. The shapes are pared back, though, and the colour is turned up: electric blue, vivid pink, luminous green, a warm gold where the low sun lands. It isn’t naturalistic, and it isn’t meant to be. She’s more interested in how a place feels at a particular hour, and colour is how she gets you there.

Then there’s the light. It filters through trunks, catches the ferns in the foreground and spills across a far-off horizon. Hang one of these original acrylic paintings on canvas and a room picks up some of that movement. They suit the spots where you want something with a bit of pull: a hallway, above the sofa, the wall you look at from the kitchen table.

If you love colourful landscape art, woodland scenes or contemporary paintings of the British countryside, you’re in the right place. Take your time. There’s a lot of light in here.