Hummel works on the floor, constructing her collages out of shapes and forms she pre-cuts from painted sheets of watercolour paper. She paints each side of the paper in different colours and textures in order to give herself options. Partly regulated by structure, and partly guided by intuition, she allows planning, instinct and chance all to intervene in the creative act.
Jo Hummel is a British abstract artist known for her distinctive painting collages, which blend formal investigations of colour, form and surface with humanist concerns about the phenomenological function of materials and process.
Hummel lives and works on the Isle of Wight.