Josephine Guida

Josephine Guida’s oil paintings freely traverse the range of textures and colors that distinguish the South Australian landscape. Guida imbues environments with bodily elasticity, causing rivers and roads to move like limbs. Her brush work accentuates both the delicate, fabric-like movements and the coarser qualities of natural terrains. Colors transcend their typical roles: pastels occasionally become muscular, while browns and blues become soft and subdued. She pushes surface and texture to their outer limits, sometimes capturing the diversity of space with uninterrupted patterning and sometimes with explosive viscosity.

Guida approaches painting as a journey that offers innumerable routes. She openly embraces new techniques and mediums because she knows they will pull her into unfamiliar visual territory. Her art is about intuition and intrigue; it is about allowing the emotions of the present to lead into unknown futures. Josephine Guida, who holds a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts and a postgraduate Teaching Degree from Flinders University, lives and works in West Croydon, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. She regularly exhibits with the South Australia Living Artists.