‘Permaculture and Poetics’ hosted by Charlotte Jansen
Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck is a painter, transdisciplinary artist and cultural practitioner based in rural Oxfordshire.
Her practice, composed of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, film, photography, writing, participatory projects, horticulture, publishing and workshops, renders caring, positive and ecological messages in soft and delicate methods. Interaction with the environment and others is central to much of the artist’s work.
Jatinder Singh Durhailay is a painter and musician based in Oxfordshire.
He was born in 1988 in London, United-Kingdom. He received a Bachelor of the Arts from University Arts London in 2011 and has been working as a painter ever since. His artistic practice spans painting and drawing, with a special interest in the usage of naturally derived pigments, as well as Indian classical music.
Blending myths and contemporary culture, Durhailay’s portrayal of the Sikh community and culture are humorous, heroic and poignant. He paints intricate and observant portraits and sceneries in the style of Indian Mughal miniature painting — spanning painterly subjects from environmentalism to Bruce Lee, moving fluidly between traditional tropes and an everchanging complex present.
Jynsym Ong is a studio potter making high fired mostly functional ware. She has studied ceramics at Clay College in Stoke On Trent and was selected as a Daiwa Scholar enabling her to undertake an apprenticeship at Mitoh Kama in Karatsu, Japan. She is interested in patterns that are found in nature that have subtlety and variation. To achieve this she uses natural materials like ash, found clay and rocks. The pots are then fired for up to 70 hours in an Anagama (wood-fired cave kiln) which creates additional volatility in the kiln atmosphere creating unexpected surfaces from the fly ash and flame paths. With her work she is looking to enrich people’s lives in a little way every day, hoping to bring joy to the quotidian and an exaltation of the domestic.