Jo Ferry's artistic practice is profoundly shaped by her upbringing on the Canadian prairies, extensive travels, and career as an energy healer and educator. Her early engagement with fibre arts, feminist perspective, and experience as a scenic artist in the film and television industry further inform her work.

Driven by a deep intuitive connection honed through years of energy practice, her art reflects her travels in North Africa and the Middle East and her commitment to equality. Ferry's diverse artistic repertoire spans abstraction, cityscapes, landscapes, portraits, and mixed media. She continually seeks new methods of expression, demonstrating versatility across genres.

Creating and destroying are integral to Jo’s artistic practice. In her earlier work, this duality manifested literally; often cutting up paintings and drawings, rearranging them into collages. These collages then inspired my 2-D and 3-D relief paintings, constructed from found wood. In recent abstract works, this process plays a subtler role, with multiple layers of paint and mixed media materials that both hide and reveal the histories of previous layers.

In her fibre work, she utilizes layers of textiles, raw wool, and stitchery. Engaging in drawing and fibre arts for many years before shifting her focus to painting, while attending Emily Carr in the 90s. She now finds her love for drawing, painting, mixed media, and fibre colliding in new and exciting ways.

Jo has always been intrigued by what defines craft versus fine art, and how these distinctions play out in our society, historically influencing gender roles.

Formal art education includes

1979 graduation from the Kootenay School of Art / DTUC in Applied Design, with a focus on Fibre Arts

1995 graduation from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, specializing in drawing and painting.