(b 1951United Kingdom. Lives and works in London)
Johanna Melvin is an abstract painter whose work references architectural detail and the urban environment. Her paintings are built through a finely layered process of decision-making about colour, spatial relationships and the physical qualities of paint, negotiating a finely spun balance between the incidental and intentional. A starting point or inspiration for this process might be found in architectural drawings, a window, an open door or a shadow cast along a wall.
Other kinds of fleeting visual sensations informing her work and its preoccupation with the painterly and sometimes cursive, might be the incidental brush-marks found on a whitewashed window, cityscapes or found colour relationships in the urban environment that catch her the eye.
