The Rust Series. Ten works in material abstraction. Acrylic, charcoal, and found materials on canvas. Each piece a record of exposure. What the body holds after a season of fracture. The work carries texture, tension, and the residue of what stayed.

Becoming — Inheritance of Rust

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Becoming — Inheritance of Rust

Acrylic, Charcoal, Fabric on Canvas 30" × 36" Available
Monument to the Present

02 / 10

Monument to the Present

Acrylic, Charcoal, Fabric on Canvas 24" × 36" Available
The Hour Between

03 / 10

The Hour Between

Acrylic, Charcoal, Paper on Canvas 22" × 24" Sold
Kneeling with Fire

04 / 10

Kneeling with Fire

Acrylic, Charcoal, Fabric on Canvas 24" × 36" Available
Uncollapsed

05 / 10

Uncollapsed

Acrylic, Charcoal, Fabric on Canvas 30" × 36" Available
The Suspension

06 / 10

The Suspension

Acrylic, Charcoal, Fabric, Paper on Canvas 24" × 36" Sold
Reliquary

07 / 10

Reliquary

Acrylic, Charcoal, Fabric on Canvas 24" × 24" Sold · The Fonb Collection
The Remnant Beneath

08 / 10

The Remnant Beneath

Acrylic, Charcoal, Fabric on Canvas 30" × 36" Available
Fragments of Continuum

09 / 10

Fragments of Continuum

Acrylic on Canvas 30" × 24" Sold · Private Collection
Bound by Rust

10 / 10

Bound by Rust

Acrylic, Paper on Canvas 30" × 24" Sold · Private Collection

The journey

A practice builds from where it begins.
This is where it began.

In 2021, Joy-Jayne Bassey decided she wanted her first art collection. In that process, she found something she had not been looking for: a place to define herself, to be in one accord with herself. She is self-taught. She began, as most honest things begin, out of curiosity and desire.

The early work was experimental. Abstract at first, looking at what was in front of her, trying to make sense of it. Introspective. A mirror held up to different aspects of her life. Then came the pour work: the flexibility of it, the quickness and the thoroughness it required at the same time. The colors decided where they wanted to go.

Then resin. She learned something from resin that stayed: it is untamed, but it requires discipline. It requires you to trust what you know while remaining open to what is yet to come.

It felt like I was exploring erosion. What weathered, seasoned, and the quiet prophecy of emerging out of a weathered season would look like.

Each season of painting said something about a specific season in her life. That led to rust. The discipline of embracing whatever comes, layered textures and lived-in tension, the visual archive of what craftsmen in our body and spirit leave behind, and what remains, and what is still trying to become.

Today, Bassey works from her studio in Kensington, Maryland. She is enrolled in the Master Artist Program at The Compass Atelier, grounding the practice she built by hand in formal study. The journey continues.

Abstract Painting

2021 to 2023
Midnight DelightMidnight Delight · Sold, Private Collection
DevotionDevotion · Sold, Anfaani Collection
MirrorMirror · Available

Resin

2022 to 2023
Pearl TrayPearl Tray · Available
UntitledUntitled · Sold
SparkleJoy Geode SetSparkleJoy Geode Set · Sold

Acrylic Pour

2022 to 2024
Blue Me AwayBlue Me Away · Sold
Spring RollSpring Roll · Sold
UntitledUntitled · Sold

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