100 Hours / Sunday Trifling

Jo Evans, AKA 100 Hours, creates quiet abstracts with natural materials with her fabric collection as her paint box. She makes soft, paintless paintings using beautiful textiles and papers such as linen, silk and hemp, manipulating but also relinquishing control to the warp and weft. At first glance the work is minimal, almost flat but on closer inspection oozing texture and tone.

She is drawn to methods of creation rooted in traditional techniques such as hand stitching and woodworking, which is then married to a love of simple modern aesthetics, influenced by styles of the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth centuries.

With an eye on sustainability, Jo uses only natural materials, from linen and silk to oak and beeswax. All of her work is hand crafted using only hand tools and almost always improvised. Textiles are secured with tiny imperceptible stitches and frames are sanded, joined and waxed with very few traditional tools.