France Jodoin

France Jodoin is a painter and printmaker best known for her ethereal, impressionistic maritime pictures, landscapes, and luminous city views inspired by European Romanticism. Striking a careful balance between representation and abstraction, Jodoin’s work is deliberately ambiguous and open-ended, concerned not with a specific place or person, but with the brevity of life and the passing of time itself. Works such as Like Vaporous Shapes Half Seen (2020) or Hidden under the dove’s wing (2016) recall the art of J. M. W. Turner, with the borders between forms dissolving away as if shrouded in mist. Jodoin also paints flowers, trees, animals, and figures, all imbued with the same sense of mystery; this overarching ambiguity is enhanced by Jodoin’s titles, which are taken from poetry, but not intended to have any literal connection to the images themselves.