{Josie McCoy}

Josie McCoy splits her time between London and Valencia. Once in her studio she creates the most amazing portraits of cinematic characters utilizing a distinguished unique style and technique.

Using oil paint like watercolour, she builds up the paintings in thin layers to make the surface glow which recreates an imitation of the cinema screen. Some pieces have up to 15 layers of paint applied and therefore each piece takes up to a month to complete! The green hue references traditional techniques of painting, where green was used as under-painting to give luminosity to the surface colour. The faces of the subjects, almost always women, are the smoothed over and unblemished masks of the global videodrome.

Since graduating from the MA Fine Art course at Central St Martin’s in 1999, Josie has enjoyed solo show success in London, Newcastle, Milan and Santiago de Compostela.

Private and public collections including: the BBC, Collection of the University of Wales, The Centre of Attention Permanent Collection, Jeremy Mogford Collection and the Borchard Collection of British Self-Portraits in the 20th Century.