100 Hours / Beach Body

100 Hours / Beach BodyJo 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. Her new work is inspired by a night on the seashore, where quiet

she chose to sit within the chaos

Her work is informed by her 23+ years as a graphic designer

where thoughts drift quietly in stillness

carrying a sense of connection and joy

the intricate tiles at every turn

the ways in which specific marks invoke a pre-linguistic syntax

Maya Naidu

There's no excuse needed to indulge in your favourite cuisine

reaching outward to embrace the viewer

and the art of making a house feel like home

Her vision was to create paintings that embody a timeless elegance while also feeling deeply contemporary — works that merge subtlety with strength

Rather than documenting specific meals