Jahn Mo ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I am a Norwegian-born artist living in the USA, best recognized for my large-scale abstract paintings.
My art portrays emotional "places" that are loosely based on the idea of a landscape. These landscapes, however, are imagined, intuitive, soulful declarations of feeling painted in an expressive style; they are not representations of particular geographic locations. Having been uprooted from my home country, my search for a sense of "Home" strongly influences my work.
My paintings are never planned in advance. I search for and eventually discover my paintings through intuitive mark-making and layering in paint and mixed media. It involves a balancing act between analysis and instinct, letting go and taking control.