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Time Past Time Present Time Future (oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm) 2018

Jill is honoured to be represented in Patrick Le Chanu’s French publication ‘Pour l’Amour de la Peinture’. The book includes exquisite colour plates of the Old Masters and contemporary artists work. Patrick chose ‘Time Past, Time Present, Time Future’ an expressive moody landscape from Jill’s exhibition in Melbourne to be included in the book which explores the passion and love for painting that unites all artists. Patrick le Chanu studied at The Sorbonne and headed up The Research and Restoration Centre at the Musee du Lourve for 15 years and is currently Museum Curator Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication.  

French fiction book cover image

Jill has been commissioned by a small Parisian publishing company to use an image of one of her landscape works ‘Still Point of the Turning World’ for the cover of a new french sci/finovel. It will be the second book cover image she has been involved with, the first being Amanda Curtin’s ‘The Sinkings’, published in 2008 by UWA Press. By the way it’s a great read, it’s set in Albany WA and is a murder mystery!  

 

Acquisitions

Jill was excited to have  ‘The Unfolding’ acquired by a private collector in Vancouver Island, Canada.

The Unfolding in situ

The Unfolding Oil on Linen 100 x 112 cms 2021 Private Collection- Canada

Commissioned Paintings

Commissioned painting in situ (left), East Fremantle WA. The whole process of working with the client was a delight from beginning to end. So happy it all worked out!

 

 

Another commissioned piece was for a young Western Australian woman who wanted to commemorate her grandmother by having a painting of her grannie’s favourite view from her home in Cottesloe Beach in WA (right).

Return to Blue, Margaret River 2014

Nyanda Smith’s opening speech for the exhibition ‘Return to Blue’ at The Margaret River Gallery. Click here to read.  

 

 

The Earl of Huntingdon opens Jill Kempson’s exhibition

Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, July 2010

 

 

“Jill Kempson – place, time, connection”

“Over the last twenty-five years Jill Kempson has forged a practice that features a dialogue across time, as well as across continents.

Her work emerges as a meditation upon place taking in different locations, a refining of simple land- scape elements – ground, sky, water and vegetation.”

Nyanda Smith’s essay on Jill Kempson –  (click here to read more).

 

 

Jill Kempson’s Oeurve – Landscape in Perspective

This high quality, 64 page book on Jill Kempson’s art practice was written by the French curator, art historian, and old masters’ specialist Patrick Le Chanu and beautifully translated into English by his wife Karen le Chanu. Jill Kempson’s Oeurve – Landscape in Perspective was funded by a Mid Career Grant from ArtsWA (WA Government) 2010 and published in the same year. Excerpts: “Is landscape painting meaningful today? Since it’s beginning it has had to struggle for legitimacy in the hierarchy of painting genres.  … Jill Kempson’s oeuvre, in all its rich diversity, shows us that landscape painting has the capacity to express all the colours and dimensions of the human soul. Earth can be seen as representing stability, our roots; Water, serenity and peace; Sky, inspiration and hope; Light, the soul’s aspiration for infinity. “What place does landscape painting hold in the twenty first century? The rise of abstraction and conceptualism has mostly eclipsed this long established theme, but Jill Kempson is an artist who transcends the succession of styles and art genres. “A key reason for this is Jill’s continuation of the artistic tradition of the Grand Tour. Thanks to her travels and her studies of the old masters, she has been able to assimilate, then go beyond, the ‘models’, while developing her own vision and style. Jill’s exploration of the art of the great masters has not been limited to an attentive examination of their works. She also familiarized herself with their techniques, which she studied at institutions internationally recognized in the examination, analysis and restoration of paintings. “Among Jill’s most striking paintings are her scenes depicting a natural world seemingly untouched by human intervention. These images of nature are sometimes peaceful, sometimes tormented, but there is still a harmony in the contrasting forces….In the different subjects she chooses, the numerous viewpoints adopted and formats used, Jill Kempson explores the landscape in all in perspectives. She succeeds in elevating this genre to it’s rightful place, and establishes the landscape’s role in expressing some of the essential issues of humanity today.”

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Design by Pascal Veydradier Landscape in Perspective is held in The National Library of Australia and 6 Australian State libraries. Please contact Jill at jill_kempson@hotmail.com if you would like to recieve a copy of Landscape in Perspective $15+postage.   Jill is available to do commissioned works, please contact her at jill_kempson@hotmail.com to discuss your proposed project.

 

Curated Group Exhibition – Helen Gory

Blooms in Pink
Oil on linen
150 x 120 cm 2021

The Unfolding Oil on Linen 100 x 112 cms 2021 Private Collection- Canada

Jill was delighted to be invited by the talented curator Helen Gory into a group exhibition of ten of Melbourne’s top women painters titled ‘Square of Sunlight’ Backwoods Gallery Collingwood, August 2021

 

Jill Kempson

Fiona Mc Monagle

Pia Murphy

Amelda Read-Forsythe

Tai Smith

Katie Stachhouse

Jacquie Stockdale

Steph Storey

Susan Wald

Deborah Walker

 

Visit the exhibition page here.

 

Art Prize Winner

Sacred Ground (oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm)

Jill is excited to have won the Rottnest Foundation Art Prize at the Janet Holmes a Court Gallery, West Perth WA.

The exhibition was curated by Sandra Murray who invited over 100 leading artists to be part of the fundraising event.

All commission from sales are being donated to the conservation of Rottnest Island.