JO HATHAWWAY

Jo is a Brighton-based painter and illustrator. Her work focuses on using colour to express memory and landscape, and is inspired by poetry and prose. Her work spans the spectrum of abstract, expressive landscape, balancing imagination and memoir. She also paints interior landscapes.

Jo studied art and illustration at Warwickshire College and graduated in 1990. She has worked professionally as an artist, and published as an illustrator ever since, for many years in parallel with her work as an editor and writer. 

Jo exhibits widely across her home county of Sussex, is a regular at Brighton Festival’s open houses, and has also shown in London, Edinburgh, Co. Clare, Paris and Indiana. Later this year, she will be joining a group show in Vienna. 

In 2025, Jo will be exhibiting: 

• FEBRUARY: a solo show of smaller works at the Starling Studio Gallery, Brighton, ‘Now For Something Completely Different’

• MARCH: ‘Down To The Bone II’, a group show at The Grange Museum, Rottingdean, Sussex

• APRIL: solo show at Mangetout in Brighton, ‘Don’t Be Afraid’

• MAY: taking part in Brighton Festival open house

• SEPTEMBER: part of a group show in Vienna, Austria, ‘Pink Panther’

• NOVEMBER: three-artist show at the Regency House, Brighton – a painter, a papercut artist and an upholsterer

• DECEMBER: a solo show in Killaloe, Co. Clare, 'Community'

She is currently curating a large-scale group show set to launch in London in 2026, ‘Fierce’, which will feature the work of a diverse group of women artists and makers.

Jo continues to teach art to both adults and children in the UK and Europe.

Her work is shown and sold directly, through fairs, festivals, and independent gallery exhibitions. She also teaches children and adults' workshops. 

Jo has a CTESOL teaching qualification, an English degree from Bristol University, and a Masters in Social Studies from Kings College London.