Jill Nichols’ painting explores both the earthbound and outer expanses of our divine cosmos. Her sense of color and composition was developed over the course of 30+ years as a commercial artist. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2000, she set her focus to painting, at first training at the Art Students League in NYC and in 2015 earned her MFA in painting at Western Connecticut State University.
Her commissioned painting of Washington D.C. appeared as a backdrop for James Comey’s interview on “Face the Nation” while another made its appearance on Showtime’s “The Comey Rule” mini-series. Her artwork “Phi,” celebrating the divine feminine was a part of the “Nasty Woman” art social movement in New Haven then went on to be installed in the Vatican Observatory Museum.
She has received awards from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service and Connecticut Office of the Arts. An active participant in the art communities throughout Connecticut, she has served as vice-president for the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society and Valley Arts Council and exhibited at the Lyme Art Association, Carriage Barn, Greenwich Art Society and Lyman Allen Museum.
Jill is an instructor at the Silvermine Art School, New Canaan, Connecticut, and conducts painting workshops locally and abroad. Jill now offers videos on YouTube and holds real-time online painting critiques.
Artist Statement
My painting is poetry, a lyrical composition of color and light. When I am painting, I am in the moment, thoroughly present and enraptured. I experience a sense of peace, as well as an urgency to capture and share the moment. It is a privilege to paint. Enveloping the invisible birdsong, whispered winds, fragrance mist, and luminous clouds, often gone before the brush touches paint. Inadvertently documenting the vanishing in a slip knot along the infinite.
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2 responses to “About Jill”
Thanks Ival. Metal is very unique to paint on -it’s a very hard surface so I can use very little paint and do multiple transparent layers.
“phi” sounds intriguing – how does metal influence your paintings?
Nice to see you in Creative Tribe group – Cameron has a great deal
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