Welcome

Welcome to the website of Melbourne-based Australian artist Jill Kempson. Please take a look around the site and enjoy the journey of discovery that will follow.

‘I found Kempson’s Waychinicup and Wilson Inlet series strangely intoxicating to stand and view; they suggest stillness and tranquility but are equally full of the painter’s presence and all her skills of composing observation.’ Ric Spence – The Western Australian 2007    

‘In addition to her academic studies, travelling has played an important role in Jill’s training. All of her voyages from the remote regions of Australia to China have influenced her vision and expression, but it’s the journeys to Europe, which seem to have bestowed the most lasting inspiration.’ Patrick Le Chanu – Landscape in Perspective

‘An intense light, filtered by mist, seems slowly to invade these scenes and advance towards us. In the painting “Saint Cloud 1906”, which features a superb curved stairway, this cloud seems to portend an apparition, and we wait apprehensively to see what will emerge.’ Patrick Le Chanu – Landscape in Perspective

‘Skies and clouds, mist and water are in essence universal phenomena. 
Captured as subject matter they invite the viewer in for a moment of stillness to reflect on the primal power of nature as well as one’s passage in time.’   Jill Kempson    

‘Water is a fundamental element in Jill’s work. In fact, it appears in almost all of her paintings. From the man-made ponds of a French park to the rocky coasts of the Indian Ocean, Jill uses water not only as a pictorial subject, but also as a reflecting surface, or to provoke a certain atmosphere.’ Patrick Le Chanu – Landscape in Perspective