ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jo Ernst is a professional artist formerly from the Blue Mountains now based in Mooral Creek, a small community in the hinterland of the Manning Valley. Jo has been involved in the arts all of her working life. In 1980 she completed the 3 year Dress Design Course at East Sydney Technical College and worked as a couturier Designer for 18 years. This was overlapped by studies in fine art - in France with Ted Seth Jacobs, a tutor from the Art Student's League, New York and a further 3 years at Paddington Art School with Stephen Wesley Gorton - leading to a later career as a visual artist and teacher. She has now been teaching, exhibiting and selling her work for 25 years.