Tender Stain

Poppy Jones

Tender Stain, 202125.7 x 19.35cmSign in to view price
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oil and watercolour on silk & aluminium frameHerald St
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This abstract artwork features a predominantly purple and blue color palette, creating a moody, atmospheric ambiance. The central figure appears blurred and ghostly, suggesting a sense of movement or emotional expression. The artist has utilized a photographic medium, likely capturing a fleeting moment and distorting the image to evoke a dreamlike, introspective quality. This work seems to explore themes of emotion, memory, and the human form, inviting the viewer to engage with the piece's emotive and conceptual underpinnings. ...

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Poppy Jones
Artist
Poppy Jones
B.1985, British

As the early sun peeps into view, Poppy takes the short walk to her secluded studio in rural Sussex. Drowsily wading across fields, having been acutely alert from her duties mothering a young child – the oxymoronic title, Bright Sleep captures the charged psyche she feels most days. Poppy is well-attuned to the intricacies of her craft, having graduated with a Masters in printmaking at the Royal College of Art in 2010 and since tutored at West Dean College – the art school in Sussex founded by poet and patron for the surrealists, Edward James. She retreated to her studio of solace, away from the bustle, during the lockdowns, quietly developing a distinct process of printing that merged her other interests: painting and photography. She refers to her pieces as ‘objects’, limboing between printing, painting and photography, neither decidedly one nor the other. Using a lithographic process where she’ll print a photograph on to a polyester plate coated in water and oil, Poppy manipulates her objects by working into the surface with watercolours. So much of printmaking follows rigorous procedures, but Poppy’s routine is much more intuitive and unpredictable. No two are the same, each impossible to replicate exactly. Often she’ll work on a piece for a few days using a paintbrush or her fingertips. She calls the process ‘shadowing’: each image suggests or mimics reality, as a shadow does. Poppy doesn’t have to look too far for inspiration, distilling familiar sights from her home in unfamiliar close-up: an empty glass, a jacket collar, garden flowers, the shadow from a window. She takes quick snapshots when a vision blooms, deliberating on a few perspectives and crops before transferring it onto plate. Working on identically sized panes, all no bigger than the pages of a book, Poppy’s pieces unfold like short aperçus of a story. Each still life is to scale as she sees it, yet you’ll notice a subtle heightening of drama: perhaps a more pronounced shadow in one, or an over-saturation of colour in another. Her interest in surrealism is perhaps motivated by her imminent surroundings in Sussex. In the early Twentieth Century, and during the Second World War, an influx of modernist writers and artists (Virginia Woolf, Lee Miller and Edward Burra among them) moved here to live and work. Today, surrealist artist John Stezaker resides in the county. Poppy’s experience of tutoring at the college founded by a frequent collaborator of Salvador Dali’s has meant she was frequently surrounded by a deluge of surrealist art: Pavel Tchelitchew’ eccentric painting of a concert scene was one of many she was drawn to. Slowly these surrealist influences seeped into Poppy’s art: she’d often cogitate on a painting for reference before starting her own. Recently, one of the lesser known female Surrealists, Edith Rimmington, has made a mark on her mind: in particular, a painting of repeated eyes reflecting on to a glass vase. For the Bright Sleep series, Poppy worked on to suede and silk, often hoarding scraps from eBay, or cutting up her old jackets. The fabrics absorb oil and paint in different ways: the delicate silk soaks them up, bleeding the colour deep into its fibres, whereas the tough suede makes blotchy stains, sensitive to the lightest of fingerprints. You’ll notice the surfaces look saturated as if they’ve been reclaimed from history. If you look closer, the details aren’t always as they first seem. Deciphering if a mark is the remnant of ink from the plate or Poppy’s deft brushwork adds to the intrigue. While she works, Poppy usually reflects on André Kertész’s photograph of artist Piet Mondrian’s studio, foregrounded by a fake flower in a vase. Poppy’s pieces are composed in a similar vein – seemingly everyday sights from the home, depicted with a sleight of hand or subtle glitch. There’s an unmistakable familiarity to what she sees – because we see it too. But where we might consider such moments fleeting, Poppy makes them last forever. ...

Poppy Jones: Artworks
Collar
Poppy Jones
Collar, 2021
26.97 x 20.02cm
Soul & Body
Poppy Jones
Soul & Body, 2021
25.7 x 19.35cm
Bright Sleep
Poppy Jones
Bright Sleep, 2021
25.7 x 19.35cm
Warm/Wild
Poppy Jones
Warm/Wild, 2021
23.16 x 17.48cm
Tender Stain
Poppy Jones
Tender Stain, 2021
25.7 x 19.35cm
Winter Scene
Poppy Jones
Winter Scene, 2025
42 x 59.5 x 2.5cm
Herald St
Gallery
Herald St
London, London

Herald St was established in 2005 by Ash L’ange and Nicky Verber. With two spaces across London, Herald St represents twenty-five international artists and participates in multiple art fairs including Art Basel, Frieze London, and Frieze Los Angeles amongst others. Works by Herald St artists are held in many museum collections and are regularly included in exhibitions within public institutions.

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