“It is more about the process, it is a meditative practice rather than a finished product.”
Welcome to Mamamia’s art endeavour, the Voulez-Vous Project. Every week we celebrate emerging artists, designers, illustrators, creators and cats who dress like their owners (not joking). Our aim: to help the internet become a slightly more beautiful, captivating, or thought-provoking place by making art accessible.
Jordana Henry is a mark maker, and her incredibly unique paintings have helped gain her a huge instagram following.
Henry is originally from Sydney but now calls Byron Bay home. Moving there seven years ago, she completed a visual arts degree at Southern Cross University, majoring in printmaking, before turning to painting.
“After completing printmaking, I found it really hard to get hands on a press, so I taught myself to paint, I’ve never had a painting lesson in my life.”
“I think of it as mark making rather than painting, I have never thought of myself as a painter. More as a mark marker who uses paint.” Henry says.
Henry’s unique approach to painting is primarily inspired by day to day life. She makes marks based on anything from how many coffees she has had, to what novel she is reading at the time.
“I like the process of how authors write, for example Jack Kerouac wrote On The Road on typewriter on one roll of paper. I am interested in the process, which I then take into the art. It is more about the process, it is a meditative practice rather than a finished product. I never know what it is going to look like when I begin the work. ”
