Jo Self (née Lee; born 15 January 1956) is an English contemporary artist and poet.
Jo SelfStudio, Brixton, London: paintings shown 'Pink Tibetan Lotus' 12ft x 7ft oil on canvas. 2005. Jo Self. 'Ocean'. oil on canvas. 2006. 24" x 36". Jo Self.
In 2004, she created a painting of the private garden of the Dalai Lama in Northern India during a residency of three months between 2004–2005. A. S. Byatt summarised the experience of this show with flowers as a combination of toughness and fragility, quoting Shakespeare: "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea / whose action is no stronger than a flower?"[1]
In 2006–2007 Self worked at night from the steps of Tate Britain painting the river Thames.
Self, Jo (2005), Paintings from the private garden of his Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso Dharamsala, Northern India, Redfern Gallery, London, ISBN0-948460-06-7
Referencesedit
^Petal Power, AS Byatt, The Guardian, 30 November 2005.
External linksedit
Official Jo Self web site
ArtNet auctions results
BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour - Jo Self
BBC Radio 4 - Midweek
Blooms for the Buddha
AS Byatt article on Jo Self
Jo Self at HumanFlower Project
Browse & Darby
January 01, 1970
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