About Jo

The Gray Zone
Jo Brown

A painter of seascapes, I require a broad palette of grays for my work. Grays are everywhere. Clouds, often imagined as white, seldom call for white alone, but instead a spectrum of grays, blues, ivories, yellows, browns and pinks, at times even the darkest of near-black. The new painter achieves gray by mixing, of course, black and white. Such a binary gray color may work for rendering cold steel, concrete, aluminum, or other manufactured surfaces, but… more