Jenny Ioakim is a British artist whose practice spans stone lithography, drawing, and painting, with a particular focus on classical sculpture and the enduring dialogue between material and form.

 

Based in East Anglia, Jenny draws inspiration from the sculptural collections in Cambridge, where encounters with ancient Greek and Roman statuary inform an ongoing exploration of bodies emerging from — and dissolving back into — stone.

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Working directly onto lithographic limestone is central to Jenny’s process. The tactile immediacy of the medium, with its unforgiving surface and capacity to record every gesture, hesitation, and correction, mirrors the artist’s fascination with the incomplete, the fractured, and the half‑formed. This sensitivity to imperfection echoes the broken limbs and weathered surfaces of classical sculpture, where realism and raw material coexist in a state of tension.

 

Across media, Jenny’s work investigates themes of emergence, erosion, and the human impulse to shape permanence from fragile matter. The resulting images — whether drawn, printed, or painted — carry a sense of quiet intensity, revealing the traces of their making and the enduring presence of the sculptural forms that inspire them.