Biography

Jo March was born in 1962 and brought up in the small moorland village of Darite in south east Cornwall. She graduated from the village primary school to Liskeard Grammar School and from there to Sheffield University, where she read English and European History. However the pull of Cornwall could not be resisted and she was soon to return to county of her birth to begin her career as a professional artist.

In addition to her skill as a landscape artist, Jo is also a very accomplished figure painter and her paintings of children are quite captivating. She has also displayed a unique talent for painting greyhounds and last year was commissioned to paint Farloe Verdict, the winner of the English and Scottish Greyhound Derbys in 2003 and 2004 respectively.