"It's not color over a surface. It's an encounter. Her materials, petals, rocks, roots, are partners. Through touch she learns the patterns of ancestral structure that replicate themselves in micro and macro drawings."
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Jozane was raised in a farm, barefoot, free. At 7 years old she moves to Porto Trombetas, in the heart of the Amazon. Her sensory world expands. She defines that moment as her Initiation in classes of “attentive silence” – the perception of nature’s details, the shapes, colors, perfumes, sounds. The miniscule, the footprint, the unperceivable. Jozane transfers this subtleness to her paintings. She collects leaves that just fell from trees and offers them extended life by transferring them to paper and fabric. It’s not color over a surface. It’s an encounter. Her materials, petals, rocks, roots, are partners. Through touch she learns the patterns of ancestral structure that replicate themselves in micro and macro drawings. Structures that are impermanent, but remain. Looking at her art, the observer is invited into listening and achieves a sense of peace. A graduate in Architecture from Santa Ursula University (USU/RJ), she worked as a graphic designer for shop windows and cinema.
She did additional studies in contemporary art with Malu Fatorelli at the school of Visual arts for 3 years, Photography, BioArchitecture in TIBA Rio - Institute of intuitive Technology, recycled paper and Papier Maché. Currently researching natural pigments to dye fabrics and Japanese paper. She had two exhibits in Rio – at Solar de Botafogo and Parque Laje. In 2015 she moved to Los Angeles. She did a course in Indigo and Shibori at the Japanese American National Museum, Chinese Brush painting with Ning Yeh and Mayee Futterman, sumi-e with Lilith Ohan and natural dyes/Indigo with Graham Keegan. In 2019 she travels to Dharamsala, India, for an immersion in Tibetan Thangka painting and preparation of mineral pigments. In Seattle, studies natural pigments with Heidi Gustafson, and mud-dyeing techniques with Aboubakar Fofana. Jozane now lives on the East Coast engaging her practice of natural materials as they align with the seasons.