About the Artist
Jo Headington was born in South Wales, in 1966. Having obtained an Honours Degree in 1994 from The University or Wales in Cardiff, and a Masters Degree in Fine Art Practice in 2017 from the University of South Wales, she has developed an expressive yet controlled style of painting, working with quick strokes of the brush or palette knife and rich buttery oil paints, she intuitively manipulates the medium on her choice of surface to capture the light and forms of the landscape as she perceives them.
Her work has been inspired by the rolling hills and peaks of the Brecon Beacons, always in view from her homeland in the Welsh Valleys, and Headington has proved to be a distinctly contemporary landscape artist. Her work is in private collections in the UK and Australia and has held solo exhibitions of her work and been invited to exhibit with group shows, including Welsh Contemporary Artists, and others up until her move to Lancashire in 2021. Whilst living there, Headington travelled to the Lakes and Peak District, camping and hiking across the mountain ranges, enjoying the rugged beauty and painting en plein air on the windy peaks.
Jo responds sensitively to the landscape seeking to capture the experience in a variety of media, using watercolour and pastels when outdoors, and in the studio using oil on canvas or artist board.
"I paint landscapes, in order to communicate and share my experience of being out in nature and hopefully express my love of and for this planet."
Headington now lives back in Wales, in the town of Brecon where she enjoys daily views of the Brecon Beacons, now renamed Bannau Brecheiniog meaning "The Peaks of Brychon's Kingdom" referring to the 5th Century King Brychan.