Jo Carroll is a Melbourne based abstract artist.
After a successful career in global advertising agencies, Jo got serious about painting in late 2016, focusing her energy on her passion for painting and creating pieces for her first solo exhibition.
Jo's art is calming and meditative, borne out of her passion to create from nothing, capturing the imagination of the viewer. Her serene colourscapes invite her viewers to pause, reflect, re-balance and energise. Carroll begins each artwork without a plan of composition, simply allowing herself to be guided by her own energy with clouds, nebulae, water and the glow of light being common themes in her work. Carroll’s paintings are at once scenic, atmospheric and ethereal, taking the viewer into the painting to experience something transcendent and mystical.
“As an abstract artist and Reiki Master, my passion is to create from nothing. No preconceived ideas, references or plan of composition — I let myself be guided by the energy within. I create imagery that is scenic, atmospheric and ethereal, taking the viewer into the painting to experience something transcendent and mystical. Clouds, nebulae, water, mysterious landscapes and the exalting glow of light are common themes in my works. My goal is to capture the imagination of the viewer and provide a moment of serenity — to pause, reflect, re-balance and energise.”
2023 Solo exhibition LUX SERENUS Yering Station 8 Aug - 17 Sept
2022 'Reflective Journeys' Montsalvat 17 Nov 2022 - 8 Jan 2023
2022 Biennial of Colour and Light 2022, West End Art Space, Oct
2022 Solo 'Manifest' West End Art Space, 17 Aug - 3 Sept
2022 Solo 'Being and Imagination' Yering Station Art Gallery
2021 Solo 'Ascension' 26 Advantage Gallery
2021 'Elemental' fortyfivedownstairs
2021 MAVA group show "At Sea" - Southern Buoy Studios
2020 Montsalvat - The Long Gallery, 7 Hillcrest Ave, Eltham
2020 Solo 'A New Dimension' Manyung Gallery - Mornington
2020 A collection of works by Bev Plowman & Jo Carroll The Old Auction House
2019 Whitehorse Art Show
2019 Bayside Art Show | Hart Art Show | Mount View Art Show
2019 Camberwell Art Show
2019 RipperArts Show
2019 'Celebrations' group exhibition The Old Auction House
2019 International Women's Day group show at Guggenart Gallery
2018 Whitehorse Art Show
2018 Vernissage Art Gallery
2018 Camberwell Art Show
2018 'The Energy Within' Riveresque Gallery, 142 Yarra St, Warrandyte
2018 Sorrento Art Show
2017 Whitehorse Art Show
2017 Somers Art Show
2017 Camberwell Art Show
2017 Knox Art Show | Art In Tune, Brighton | Moonee Valley Art Show
2017 Albert Park Art Show