Jill Smith – portfolio

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https://www.jillsmithart.co.uk
07802 873035
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Exhibition information

When painting I aim to capture those fleeting light effects on the landscape or colour combinations that transform a scene and make it special. My subject matter is often the local landscape near my home but I am always drawn to anywhere with water and/or rocks. I tend to produce ‘recognisable’ images but have the occasional ‘experiment’ with something slightly different.

I started painting in watercolour almost exclusively for many years and it is my first love of painting medium but now I find more of my current work is in oil. Choice of medium to work in can be determined by the subject matter and size of the work.

My exhibition at the Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage will run throughout the whole of Artweeks 2025, during the Museum opening hours (9:30-3:30, closed Sundays and Bank Holidays) and not just during the week allocated to the South region. A wide variety of colourful oil and watercolour local landscapes and other work, mostly in a traditional style, will be on display in a variety of shapes and sizes, framed and unframed, together with original hand-produced linocut prints and reproduction giclée prints of paintings.

Fellow artist Patsy Jones will be sharing the exhibition space with her landscape oil paintings, linocuts and collages.

I will also be exhibiting with another 8 members of Lechlade Art Society in the squash court at Buscot Park (by the swimming pool and frescoes) during the 3rd-11th May, open in the afternoons 2pm-5:30pm.