[b][u]BUILDER, DREAMER[/u][/b]

By scanning counter-cultures such as &#039;rock&#039; and &#039;biker&#039; (muscle, cars, skate, sports etc.), I attempt from a perspective influenced by a personal sensibility toward landscape, forests and magic, to establish relationships between &#039;nature&#039; and &#039;culture&#039;. Often these relationships resolve them selves by taking on the form of mythologies.
As a dreamer fascinated by the shinny, pearlescent, pop and glam this sensibility&#039; within my practice might best be described simply as dreaming; a process by which I filtering ideas through an important visual and sonic memory, strongly linked to my &#039;heavy listening&#039; and activities within radio, as both DJ and critic. 
In a sense, with respect to the making of my objects, I consider myself as a &#039;shaper&#039;; someone who crafts (wood-turning, pipe-carving, patchwork. etc.). Forming things with a non-standard idea producing drawings and artefacts that in a way talk to each other, questioning and answering their own shared activity, presence and value; a &#039;counter-culture&#039;. In this way my work relates to a certain attitude of primitivism, a kind of post-modern-primitive-revival.
The apparent indifferent status I attributed to each work leads to questions concerning ambiguity. How do we interpret these works; as fetishisms, due to their element of &#039;craft or folk production&#039;, or as shakers in the minimal playground, or simply a way to help you travel in the time, nostalgia, &#039;&#039;golden oldies&#039;&#039;. I like the way things can look indeterminate but in fact refers to somes codes and myth that deals with everyone, like the formation of one universal band (The Dreamers) to which one becomes a member as soon as one engages ones facility to dream.

[i]J.V. (2009)[/i]



Jocelyn is fortunate in that he has an interest in culture that is not primarily focused on visual art. He has a mature and objective interested in the culture of music, particularly in the area of what could generally be referred to as the ‘rock bands’. This broad interest, which has been both a major product and major influence on our Times, ‘fuels’ his work.
Within this source of energy I believe there is one particular brand of fuel that has a subtle but strong effect on Jocelyn’s work. I think he is influenced by what in English we call ‘folk’. For me particularly with respect to his earlier drawing and prints, there is a strong ‘nature’ / ‘folk’ influence that reminds me of the British artist William Blake. In this subtle way even though Jocelyn’s work is so strongly influenced by late 20th century and contemporary ‘indie’ music, (normally associated with an urban/modern context), his work has an underlying rural, nature and ‘past’ feel to it. This runs in opposition to what one might expect, and provides a curtain uniquely interest. 
In the cool aesthetics of 2008, which undoubtedly will still be present in 2009/10, such an influences within contemporary art could be very interesting both for him and us.

[i]N.B. (2009)[/i]