Juxtapoz Magazine – The FORE//GROUND in the Works of Josie Morway
Josie Morway’s unbelievable oil-on-panel paintings are hyper-real looking and nonetheless also entirely fantastical. Her menagerie of animal topics are caught in even now-life tableaus that subtly comment on environmental and international challenges though evoking reverence and capturing symbolic times witnessed in common Renaissance religious portraiture.
In recent many years I’ve begun to feel the edges of my very own desire in making real looking – albeit frequently improbable – imagery of character, with strict interactions in between fore and backgrounds, depth, light, gravity. I’ve felt fewer referred to as to shell out power creating an illusion of truth, and much more toward checking out what it seriously feels like – from my specific second and corner of heritage – to relate to the “wild”. In and out of lockdowns, by reckonings and superstorms, throughout new booms and busts of exceptional plant accumulating and mother nature fetishism, I have located my marriage to the normal environment much more difficult, intriguing, and disorienting.
In this new team of paintings, I’m baring my possess drive for a thing oversaturated and stimulating, and hoping to truthfully reflect the spinning sensation of going through mother nature by the outdoor and the indoor, the cultivated and the untamed, by wallpaper and hothouses, seed banks and preserves, as effectively as the definitely and unknowably wild.
What is contained, and what’s uncontainable?
Exactly where does the mild come from?
If it’s all in the foreground, in which do we stand? —Josie Morway
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