Artist statement
Jovanitha Le Long (b. 1985) is a Mauritian-French oil painter from Beauvais, France. She believes that we are our happiest when we are our truest. That's how, in 2020, she left her job as a lawyer to become a full time artist. Art brought her the freedom to be her true self, after masking most of her adult life, to hide her Asperger's syndrome. Her expressive compositions consist of simple lines and bold colours, outlined in black. She uses only pure colours, no mixing. Le Long strives to capture the essence of the subject matter until it results in a living harmony of colours.
Jovanitha has been featured in multiple blogs and publications, including The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Art Feeds Souls, Create Magazine and Arts to Hearts Magazine. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Parallax London Art Fair, Superfine New York, Maison des Arts in Créteil and more.
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, US2023 Bloom, Create Magazine, curated by Gita Joshi, virtual
2022 Images de ma ville, de mon quartier, Beauvais, FR
2021 Inner Power, The Art Queens, virtual
2021 Rêvons ensemble, Maisons des arts, Créteil, FR
2019 Urbanités, Maison des arts, Créteil, FR -
Art Fairs
Superfine Art Fair, New York, May 2024
Superfine Art Fair, San Francisco, March 2024
Superfine Art Fair, New York, September 2023
Parallax Art Fair, London, July 2023 -
Press and Interviews
Arts to Hearts Magazine, curated by Liz Lidgett, Summer issue 2023
Alicia Puig, Create Magazine holiday gift guide, Create Magazine,
November 29, 2022
Geraldina Khatchikian, Conversation with Jovanitha Le Long, Art feeds
souls, April 2022
The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Issue 1, June 2021
Podcasts
The Fool’s Podcast, Season 2, Episode 2, “Human Rights Lawyer to Pop Art
Artist, Mauritius to France, Socialism & a NDE” , December 2021