DUNDAS - LATE SNOW

Artist: Jody Joseph

Medium: Oil on canvas

36" x 30"

Jody Joseph is a plein air painter whose subject is often the beautiful houses of her Southern Ontario hometown, Dundas. She is a well-known sight in her community, painting outside in front of her portable easel in Dundas’ many neighbourhoods. 

Joseph has had many solo and group exhibitions of her work in Canada, the US and Italy. She had early art training in her native Chicago, and later became a student of the Abstract Expressionist painter Nicolas Carone at the school he founded in Italy. There she also studied with the painters Wayne Thiebaud, Andrew Forge, Ruth Miller, Jake Berthot and Ruggero Savinio. 

Joseph has taught painting, drawing and collage at DVSA for more than 20 years. She also teaches extensively at workshops in Italy. Joseph is a curator as well, including a current position as the curator of the TBA Artspace at Dundas’ Carnegie Gallery. 

ARTIST’S STATEMENT 
I worked on this painting from a bedroom window in my own home in March 2020, after a late winter/ early spring snowfall, the kind we have here when true spring is temptingly close. There is a particular beauty to these snowfalls, especially late in the day, when, looking west as I was, the setting sun adds a lovely subtle glow to the gray light. Particularly intriguing in this light are the older brick houses, so typical of the area. Painting anything in backlit light is hard, more so with lots of white in the view. The colours are muted; the contrasts are not sharp.  But, there is a lot of beauty in close relationships as I try to show in this painting.  

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