Jo Okell’s prints are always single Monotypes, sometimes referred to as Unique Prints. She works on them over time using oil based printing ink that requires drying time between each layer.  While at Morley college she used the bed of a large Offset Press to ink up each layer. After manipulating the image it is transferred on to the roller and offset onto the paper. Later, while working at Volcanic Editions, she used layers of inked acetate and rolled them through an Etching Press. She works on around seven or eight related series of prints at a time.

She is interested in the bounded edges of areas that lie uncertainly within, or maybe through, the field of colour. The work is abstract. She is drawn to emptiness but seems to need something defined, enclosed, bordered.

During Covid she and her daughter Molly Okell, set up Artillery Art.  It is a Studio in Ramsgate.  As well as their own work they ran printing workshops for students from Shared Times

She studied at Central St Martins and Morley

Website  www.josephineokell.com