About Valerie

valerie jordan painter gloucestershire

As a practitioner , my roots are in the tradition of landscape  and still life paintings . In my work this representational skills base is allied with a conceptual approach to research and contextualisation of my practise as a painter in relationship to a concern with both the decorative and the rigorously formal.

 

I am interested in the ways in which Eastern Carpet design employs a range of modes of representation. Realism and mythology co-exist simultaneously on the same plane.


My recent work has involved drawing painting printing, and sewing in direct response to the landscape of Miami, where I lived and worked for a few years before recently returning to the Cotswolds. I layer, superimpose and repeat details from studies of shimmering water and marine life, fish, shells flowers, etc. within structures that echo both Eastern carpet design and formal grid of the city. I regard these “landmarks”, natural and man-made as equally transient.

 

View Valerie's CV here

Collaborations

Michael McEllin

Valerie is currently working with Michael McEllin on a series of video transformations of Miami Lake and other works.
View video Miami Lake by Valerie Jordan - a transformation below:

To see more transformations visit Michael's youtube channel here

 

Justin Mifflin

Valerie has recently collaborated with furniture designer Justin Mifflin. Justin is a furniture designer/maker who studied BA Furniture design at Birmingham City University 2001-04

justin mifflin collaboration

 

Select Trail 2019

valerie jordan in her studio
Valerie in her studio

Valerie will be opening her studio on the SITselect trail :
Saturday 11 - Sunday 12 May 11- 6pm
Saturday 18 - Sunday19 May 11- 6pm
My smaller  Work may also be viewed at the Lavender Bakehouse each day 9- 4 pm

Exhibitions

*NEW*

'Return to Sender’  Miami Beach Urban Studios September 20th- November 9th

‘Handful of Artists’  Malthouse Gallery Stroud  October 21st- 28th

‘Winter Exhibition Sitselect’  Lansdown Gallery  November 20th- 25th

 

You can currently view Valerie's work at Surrey University and Chelteham Hospital.

 

Links

Valerie's work is also listed on ARTUK.org:
artuk.org/discover/artists

Valerie has displayed work at SITselect Festivals and Trails
sitselect.org

View the 2018 SITselect trail

selecttrail.org/portfolio/valerie-jordan-2/