Jo Delafons

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Playing around with layers and compositions.
Experimenting with casting and using encaustic on hand made paper.
New work inspired by old. Sometimes ideas take a long time to gestate and move along. I first began experimenting with casting handmade paper on my post grad. I recently found some old casts of mine and have recast them to develop in some way. I like the simplicity and cleaness of this. I have some ideas and feel like doing something different...
A couple of my puppets next to the children's drawings that inspired them. In teaching skills, it's easy to focus on things like control and neatness over imagination and expression and the kids also think the children who are ' good at art ' are the neat ones. I was encouraging them to draw with their other hand, or both at once, vary their line, not rub out and value things they might think 'wrong'. I showed them a variety of artists work inspired by children's art, and a lot of the kids who originally thought their drawings were rubbish started to value them.
I like the simplicity of this. I just added to an old door handle and something else I found that suggested bouys on a boat.
Just received back three of my encaustic paintings from the framer.
I was experimenting with possible backgrounds to photograph this against but liked it best against the studio floor.
I really like the haze of very fine rust dust that built up beneath this piece when I was building it.
Been loving Shoreham beach and swimming in the sea. Just pretending to be in thr studio posting this! 😎
My studio shelves.
SWIPE to see this little experiment wobbling at an earlier stage. It still sways as its only balanced on a small spanner and incredibly thin, but, surprisingly, its still standing.
I like the stacked layers in the base of this. I was trying to suggest the way light hits the river here. Woody sticks and grasses protrude from the mudbanks and are reflected with the sky against shapes of the banks at low tide.
This is my favourite piece of my work. I love the delicacy of it and the way it balances.
Like the simplicity of this small piece.
Still love this one.Its the biggest piece I've done at about 30x30 in. I like the abstract drawn bits within it that are semi transparent and want to explore ideas around this further.