flâneur

Joanna Blémont transforms watercolour paintings into comics, zines and a 2,000-frame film for Loewe

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Drawing from walks, photographs and Google Maps, the artist’s slow, sequential process turns familiar places into uncanny scenes.

Joanna Blémont’s paintings feel like those quiet movie scenes where you’re made to dwell a little longer on a shot in anticipation of what’s about to happen next. The apprehension felt in these artworks leaves you with the impression that there is something being hidden that’s on the edge of being felt or seen. Although familiar, these intricate and eerie illustrated moments aren’t of any particular place, and this is intentional. “I tend to draw spaces which can feel familiar to a wider group of people, I approach this by removing place-specific markers,” Joanna says. Instead of…

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