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JODY RICHARDSON

Lives and works in Ottawa, On Canada
http://www.jodyrichardson.com

“Jody Richardson is a contemporary expressionist

who employs a loaded brush and intense color in taut
compositions, packed with emotional power. Her slashing
strokes and strident colors imbue her figurative subjects
with a strongly visceral quality.” (New York ART speak)

Hailing from England, Jody majored in Fine Art at the Jody has travelled to study the masters and contemporary
prestigious Ontario College of Art in Toronto. There she art at galleries and museums in New York City, Canada and
received a scholarship and graduated with honors. Her work Europe. She also enjoys doing landscape and cityscape
has been collected and exhibited in Canada, New York, Los paintings, usually in oil, on location wherever she goes.

Angeles, England, Amsterdam, Italy and Hawaii, with New
York City and Toronto being the most frequent. Her paintings of enigmatic creatures combine human,
animal and imaginary elements, creating highly original

Jody combines human, animal and imaginary elements work: zebras grazing in a school yard while a large cat
in her highly original work. Jody also paints abstracts, strolls down the sidewalk and a sax player serenades on
landscapes, portraits and still lifes. Jody creates sculptures the corner, or a concert takes place in a carwash with
as well, mostly using metal. Ms. Richardson’s innovative wild animals looking on.

art, which reveals formal control of her medium as well as She has since integrated these themes with her interest
creative imagination, has earned her a number of grants in music. Some evenings are spent in clubs sketching the
and inclusion in the collection of the Canada Council for musicians. Performance painting has also developed from
the Arts among others. sketching the musicians.

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