Curated Collection

Joy Arden has long been fascinated by urban wastelands, demolished buildings, weathered surfaces, archaeological excavations and construction sites.  A sense of place, the passage of time as well as the traces left by human activity in the environment form a focus for the work. The studio paintings are begun with the memory of the experience of the place or objects. They are a free interpretation of the subject, where colours or shapes are ‘discovered’ or revealed during a process of applying  paint and scraping back, until there is a tension and a sense of something seen or experienced.