About abstract painter Johanna Melvin

Johanna Melvin is a London-based artist whose practice is rooted in a process-led approach, where intuition and accident are balanced by a keen sense of structure and order. The interplay between control and gestural freedom is central to her work, inviting viewers to engage with both the formal qualities and the intuitive, or emotive content of each piece.

Her use of the grid motif - or intersecting horizontal and vertical lines - combined with painterly gesture and colour play, could be seen to suggest aerial views, or psychological maps, combining personal mood, memory, or state of mind - or as the artist describes, something akin to ‘non-linear visual diary entries’.

Artwork titles often arrive intuitively, inspired by conversations, literature, song lyrics, memories, places and sometimes personal preoccupations while a work is in progress.