Jo Perkins is a painter and art educator based in rural Perthshire, known for expressive, colour-led landscapes and florals rooted in a unique approach to colour. Her work draws on a wide range of post-impressionist and modernist influences, alongside a long-standing engagement with Japanese art. Ideas of colour, place and reduction of form dominate her work.
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Expressive, colour-led landscapes and florals in acrylics. Jo Perkins is a Perthshire-based painter and workshop teacher whose work is shaped by post-impressionist and modernist influences and a deep engagement with Japanese art.
Jo Perkins is a painter and art educator based in rural Perthshire, known for expressive, colour-led landscapes and florals rooted in a unique approach to colour. Her work draws on a wide range of post-impressionist and modernist influences, alongside a long-standing engagement with Japanese art. Ideas of colour, place and reduction of form dominate her work.
Jo Perkins is a painter and art educator based in rural Perthshire, whose practice centres on colour — its relationships, its expressive power, and its capacity to unlock something in the people who study it.
Her paintings are characterised by luminous, layered colour and energetic mark-making, working primarily in acrylics across landscape and floral subjects. Drawing on a wide range of post-impressionist and modernist influences — from Bonnard and the Fauves to the St Ives painters — alongside a long-standing engagement with Japanese art and its ideas of colour and reduction of form, her work sits somewhere between bold colour and quiet structure.
Alongside her studio practice, Jo is a painting educator who has developed a distinctive teaching methodology built around a unique approach to colour mixing that gives students a clear, practical framework for understanding colour relationships. Her workshops are known for helping people genuinely loosen up and find their own mark.
She teaches regularly at Off the Rails Arthouse in Ladybank, at Paintbox School of Art, Cockenzie, and leads painting holidays in the south of France.
For Perthshire Open Studios 2026, Jo is exhibiting as part of the group showcase at The Bield at Blackruthven. She will be painting on site throughout, so visitors can come and watch her at work — a chance to see the paintings and the process up close, alongside a wonderful community of fellow Perthshire artists.
