Josie's body of work spans over 20 years of portraiture and painting. She paints in series, which are available to view and explore via her archive.
Body of Work
Contemporary Icons
The idea of the female gaze is central to my painted portraits of iconic female characters from film and television. I'm mesmerised by the power these characters hold in the collective psyche.
My Contemporary Icons series explores the relationship between painting and cinema, trying to capture, as Barthes says in Mythologies, "that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy". I want the viewer to lose themselves in the complexity and emotion of the human face.
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Pop and Punk
2017 to date
This series celebrates the singers who have played a significant role in my life, with a particular focus on those who influenced me during my formative years in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Real People
2001 to date
My Real People series consists of paintings of my friends and commissioned works.
The paintings of Mary Richardson, Jane Pannell and Sarah Pilmer were selected for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Paint 3D
2012
After watching the 3D version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 in 2011, I wondered if it would be possible to create a 3D image using oil paint.
I researched how to make an anaglyph 3D photograph of a projected film still, and then selected one film to represent each decade between the 1950s and 2000s, before the use of 3D became prominent in mainstream cinemas. The selection process was entirely subjective – although I tried to choose films which I thought represented each decade. The main project consists of six paintings of the anaglyph versions of the film stills I chose from each film.
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Time Series
2003 to date
These paintings are all related to my ongoing interest in depicting time. One day, I will paint all of the 24 frames in one second of film.
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