- Image from artist’s website – JillCarver.com
Jill Carver. I love her work, it’s got such a neat twist to it. One look and you can tell this artist is a pro. I’m familiar with her work from South Street Art Gallery’s website, facinating! The image being featured is “Winter Harmony” Matter-of-fact here’s a blip about Jill from South Street Art Gallery’s website:
Jill Carver – Originally from England, Jill Carver moved to the United States in 2002 following a twelve-year career as a research assistant at the National Portrait Gallery in London. She now divides her time between Austin, Texas and Rico, Colorado. Recognition for her work has come quickly, and she has won numerous awards including “Artists Choice” most recently at the Laguna Beach Invitational in 2009, also at Telluride in 2009 and at Plein Air Easton! in 2008. The Art Academy Museum in Easton, Maryland has purchased two of her paintings for its permanent collection.
A self-confessed “addict” to outdoor painting, she frequently packs up her pick-up truck and two dogs for “hunter-gatherer” painting trips across the West. “I spend as much time walking and observing and sketching as I do painting. It tunes me into the landscape. My first step is exploring and just looking. I do hours of that, and I find lots of paintings as a result. You pay attention to what your mind keeps wandering back to.”
Although Jill painted often as a child, she never really thought she would pursue art for a living, and majored in British history at the University of Sheffield in England. After graduation she worked briefly as an art teacher only during the period she was applying for “real” jobs. During the next 12 years she continued to paint while working in the archives at the National Portrait Gallery in London. But after a four month painting sabbatical in New Zealand, she returned to London, and married American Larry Carver who encouraged her to start her painting career after their move to Texas. Inspired and taught by Scott Christensen, successes came quickly to Jill, and awards followed.
In January 2009, the editors of Southwest Art Magazine named Carver as one of ten artists to watch. Peter Trippi, editor of Fine Art Connoisseur, named her as one of three artists to watch in the Sept/Oct 2010 issue of FAC. In 2009 she was invited as ‘guest artist’ to participate in the prestigious Maynard Dixon Country event in Mount Carmel, Utah and in 2010 she returned as an ‘invited artist’.
The artist also has a great website, she’s in several galleries, and is teaching a few workshops. If you get a chance check her out!
Catch you back here tomorrow!
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