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Jill studied at the Slade School of Art,
graduating in 1985, she won a European
scholarship which enabled her to paint in
South West France for a year. On her return she
set up a studio in London, while continuing to
paint for half the year in France, interspersed
with regular trips to Italy and Spain. Five years
ago she moved her studio to Lincolnshire.
Of her painting philosophy Jill says ‘for me the
excitement of painting is trying to capture the
likeness of things without slavish description.
Paradoxically I find the most interesting way
to carve out this reality is to use objects of an
ephemeral nature: trees, clouds, flowers: their
constant movement and the passage of the
light during the day forces me to make
decisions about their essential character and
to attempt to draw that, rather than rely on
an impression based on the moment’.
Jill's work places emphasis on structure and
composition; a series of flat and angled planes
converging in light filled tones give her
landscapes a real sense of geometric harmony.
Jill describes her distinctive approach to colour
as an attempt to “…distill the essence and
define the point of change rather than model
the surface. The resulting paintings contain, in
the words of the critic Giles Auty, "... moments
of beauty and poetry." Jill has exhibited
extensively in London and the USA.
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