JEMMA POWELL
Powell, Words in Colour
Be it fast or still, Powell absorbs the lifeforce of the world around her to equivalate the sensation of being in paint. Whether it is the metamorphosis of a pulsating city at night, the bustle of a busy harbour, the searing heat of the Italian sunor the lush and verdant English countryside, Jemma Powell’s fascination with the world and its energetic relationships is what pours onto her canvas. Through her painting Jemma creates a dialogue with the viewer – inviting us to see and feel as she does – and to celebrate the physical world we exist in. Painting is an act of both observation and transformation for Powell. It is the flow of life that is Powell’s true subject, the essence of our existence, and this is the real invitation. Through her painting, Powell invites us to join her in observing and feeling, to meditate on the (visual) experience of life, on the beauty around us in the most extraordinary corners of the world, and to build connection. A quiet observer, Powell wears her task lightly, to paint the human experience.
For Jemma painting is indelibly tied to the rhythm of her being, it is second nature. In conversation, Jemma recalls to me how her childhood in West Sussex was very bohemian. Her mother, the artist Lucy Powell, would paint anything she could – as she didn’t carve out space to paint, she painted the house and every corner of the house: hallways, doors, ceilings, furniture and lamps. Her father, also a creative, the product designer Dick Powell, designed the first cordless kettle. Against this backdrop of creativity Jemma also developed a love for nature, and spent much of her childhood outdoors, riding and exploring the countryside.
Sails
£5,300
× 30 cm £1,850
Now, with her studio next to her kitchen in West Oxfordshire, Jemma Powell has created a situation where all barriers to her practise have been removed, allowing painting as an activity to be centralised in her life – embedded to her core. This set up with the studio two steps away from the spaghetti, is for someone whose work is the flow of life, perfection. Jemma is able to explore, relentlessly, in paint, while balancing her duties as a mother and wife with a young family alongside her own needs. On her travels small bits of canvas are rolled up and stuffed into suitcases, ready to be stretched on return. So embedded is painting into her life, that her work could be read on one level to be a visual diary – a sort of autobiography if you will. To be lucky enough to view a painting by Jemma Powell is to enter a world of lyrical and poetic observations of the metaphysical. These paintings are not mimetic but are formed from deep within the subconscious and communicate in a language whose etymology is formed by brush and gesture. The paintings in this exhibition are physical manifestations of a deep continuous personal dialogue; they are a conversation that we are invited to join. Quite simply, they are ‘words in colour’.
Lizzie Collins, Art Advisor, Stoneman Collins
Jemma
CRICKET FINE ART
requests the pleasure of your company at the PRIVATE
WORDS IN COLOUR JEMMA POWELL
at 2 Park Walk, London SW 10 0 AD Tuesday 17 th June 2025 6 – 8pm
Exhibition dates: 18 th June - 4 th July 2025
Paintings are for sale on receipt of this catalogue
The entire exhibition can be viewed online at www.cricketfineart.co.uk
Summer Sailing Oil on board 44 × 101 cm
Morning Church Bells
Oil on canvas 101 × 76 cm
£5,300
Early Evening Church Bells
Oil on canvas 101 × 71 cm
£5,300
Oil on canvas 40 × 39 cm
£2,200
Oil on canvas 24.5 × 24.5 cm
£1,850
Balearic Blue Skies
Sailing at Sunrise
The Grand Canal Oil on board 42 × 32 cm £2,100
Summer in Italy
Oil on board 60 × 76 cm
£3,600
Liguria
Oil on canvas 100 × 74 cm
£5,300
Peaches, Falling Hyacinths and Spotty Jug
Oil on board 47 × 100 cm
£4,200
Spring Still Life
Oil on board 76 × 101 cm
£5,300
Pink City
Oil on board 48 × 35 cm
£2,200
Roses in an Urn II
Oil on board 53 × 63 cm
£3,200
Journey Home
Oil on canvas 75 × 51 cm £3,600
Street at Sunrise
on board 76 × 51 cm
Peonies
Oil on canvas 27 × 22 cm
£1,850
Pink Roses
Oil on canvas 36 × 27 cm
£1,950
Summer by the Lake Oil on board 22 × 32 cm
£1,950
The Silence of Snow
Oil on canvas 58 × 45 cm
£2,750
Strangers and Green Walls
Oil on board 53 × 36 cm
£2,200
Roses in an Urn
Oil on board 50 × 58 cm
£3,200
Washing Lines
Oil on board 48 × 37 cm
£2,200
Conversations on Street Corners
Oil on board 54 × 42 cm
£2,750
After the Rain
Oil on board 19 × 60 cm
£2,200
Windy Day
Oil on canvas 52 × 87 cm
£3,600
Countryside, Formentera
Oil on canvas 41 × 46 cm
£2,200
Lilac Light Oil on board 76 × 101 cm £5,300
on board 50 × 75 cm
Summer by the River
Oil
£3,600
Greece III
Oil on canvas 25 × 50 cm
£2,200
Greece II
Oil on canvas 25 × 50 cm
£2,200
Looking Down Across the Valley
Oil on board 68 × 101 cm
£5,300
Formentera Fincas
Oil on canvas 28 × 51 cm
£2,200
Italy II
Oil on canvas 29 × 36 cm
£1,950
Le Case Pastello
Oil on board 77 × 123 cm
£5,500
Gone Sailing
Oil on canvas 40 × 50 cm
£2,400
