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In the windows at Edward Jones Financial, April 1st to May 31st, 2022

Artist Bio,

Jill’s love of Collage began at an early age, piqued by the artwork on the jacket covers of her sister’s vinyl record albums…special favourites:  The Beatles, Sgt. Peppers and Elton John’s Captain Fantastic, which held endless fascinating surprises, picture riddles and oddities hiding within.

For Jill, collage is the perfect medium.  It’s a great way to repurpose the abundance of discarded magazines available at thrift shops.  This rich and relevant resource is brimming with images and photographs that capture all aspects of life, time and human culture.  Cutting out the pieces and distilling them into a new image teases the brain and creates visual poetry.  Jill uses collage to covey emotion, tell stories, to share thoughts and ideas or to make statements by examining society and the world around us.

While in high school, Jill made the profound discovery that art class was a haven and for the first time she felt she belonged.    Dali’s surrealism and Warhol’s pop art fueled an inextinguishable flame.  An active career as an entrepreneur while balancing an active family life and raising two daughters, kept a tight lid on growing her creativity. Now she spends as much of her time as possible in her home studio in Castleton, having moved to Northumberland County from Toronto in 1992.

Since 2018, she has also been involved in a collaborative collage collective at Gallery Arcturus, Toronto.

This show is Jill’s first public exhibit, displaying a variety of enlarged works and tiny dioramas. The selection depicts her fascination with creating visual tension through her use of large and small scale and how they can intersect.  Jill would like to thank Wernfrid Doll of Edward Jones Financial and you, the viewing audience for making this show possible.