For Joanna Veevers, every piece starts with drawing. All of her ceramics, from jewellery to mirrors and wall-hung assemblages, are held together by the primacy of mark-making and the eclectic visual language of outsider art. Her assemblages collate a rich world of visual references, from the fields of the north of England to the colours of Sri Lanka. Her ceramic assemblages are sometimes restrained, the negative space between tiles recalling the drystone walls which demarcate the fields of the Peak District where she grew up, while others teem with imaginative characters that have the immediacy of folk art.
Veevers' jewellery is peopled by charming characters who recall naïve artists such as Alfred Wallis, their graphic interpretations of quiet, natural environments and the busyness of human life collated into works which celebrate order and disorder. Collecting is a fundamental part of her practice: each assemblage is a mosaic of collected and organised elements, an eclectic mix of textures and marks woven together into a harmonious whole.
Joanna Veevers's ceramic works, from mirrors to jewellery, are available in our Marylebone gallery and online.
