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Jill Kempson

Excerpts from Jill Kempson’s Oevre: Landscape in Perspective by Patrick Le Chanu

“Is landscape painting meaningful today? Since its beginning it has had to struggle for legitimacy in the heirarchy 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.”

Where the trees meet

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Parc de Saint Cloud

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Mirrored Afternoon

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Pink Forrest

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Parc de Sceaux 1925

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Biography

Notes on the Paintings & Biography

Jill Kempson

Parc de Saint Cloud (2008) & Parc de Sceaux (2008)

The Parc de Saint Cloud series are interpretations of the French photographer Eugene Atget’s photographs of Parc de Saint Cloud and Parc de Sceaux in the early 1900’s and my own experience of the Parks. The parks are located just outside of Paris and were designed in their later stages by the landscape architect Andre Le Notre. I was attracted by Le Notre’s eloquent design sense and the subtle tonalities and elusive moods of Atget’s photographs. The paintings have been titled after Atget’s titles of his photographs.

Pink Forrest (2009)

Pink Forrest comes from a walk through a very ancient Forrest in Norfolk where there were still remnants of the presence of Roman soldiers.

I painted the Forrest in pinks so as to create an atmosphere of promise and mystery.

Where the Trees Meet (2010) & Mirrored Afternoon (2009)

The content of these two paintings are based on an exploration of Framingham Chase property owned by James Colman in Norfolk, which I visited in June 2008. There I was able to sit beside the lakes for hours on end without interruption, drawing and painting. This experience offered me the chance to explore themes that are always present in my work: Light, Earth, Sky and Water. It was with intense fascination that I was able to observe, absorb and note down the alluring atmosphere and stillness of nature once manicured left to run wild.

BIOGRAPHY

Born July 1961, Melbourne, Victoria

EDUCATION

2005 Limbourg Restoration Center Maastricht the Netherlands Summer School study of the historical painting techniques

2004 Center for Research and Restoration, Musee du Louvre Study of the historical painting techniques

1989 Paris /American Academy Paris Study painting

1979-1982 B.A. Fine Arts (Painting and Printmaking) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Victoria

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 ‘Earth, Sky, and Water’ - a Journey 2008-2011, Galerie Dusseldorf.
2010 ‘All in Stillness, Stands’ Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2010 ‘Garden Exploration- In and Out of Norfolk’ Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London
2007 ‘Skyscapes’, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
2006             ‘Tonalities of Time: The Forgotten Ways’, Galerie Düsseldorf
2004             ‘Remain in Light’, Galerie Düsseldorf
2001             ‘Foreign Yet Familiar’, Galerie Düsseldorf
1999             ‘Reflections’, Fremantle Arts Centre
1998             ‘Unforeseen Journeys’, Galerie Düsseldorf
1995             ‘Looking Back to Look Forward’, Galerie Düsseldorf
1993             ‘Journeys to the Interior’, Galerie Düsseldorf
1991             ‘Threading Light and Land in Tuscany’, Galerie Düsseldorf
1989             ‘Secret Garden of the Interior’, Galerie Düsseldorf

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)

2008             City of Albany Art Award A National acquisitive prize of finalists. Albany
2006             Melbourne Art Fair Exhibition Buildings represented by Galerie Dusseldorf
2006             Reading the Collection, Fremantle Arts Centre
2006             30 Years On Galerie Düsseldorf, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
2006             Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize, PICA
2006             5 Figurative Artists in the West, Galerie Düsseldorf
1998             Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
1998             21 Years On, Galerie Düsseldorf
1997             Mosman Art Prize, Mosman, Sydney, NSW
1996             The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
1995             Recent Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Western Australia
1995             Recollection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia
1994             Women of the West Royal Automobile Club, Sydney, NSW
1993   Ten Women Artists, Greenhill Galleries
1992   Artists' Choice, Greenhill Galleries
1991   Invitation Art Award, Deloitte Ross Tohmatso, Royal Perth Showground’s
1990 Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1987 Six Pack, Praxis Gallery, Fremantle

AWARDS

2010    Arts WA, Art Flight Grant for exhibition at the Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2010    Arts WA, Mid Career Fellowship Grant.
2009 Austrade - Export Grant
2008 Arts WA, Development Grant: Research into private English gardens in Norfolk, for an exhibition at The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London 2010
2006             Peoples Choice Award, Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize, PICA, Australia
2004             Arts WA Development Grant: Research painting techniques Paris, France
2001             Arts WA Development Grant: Research, Paris, France
1989            Australia Council: Overseas Studio Residency, ‘Il Paretaio’, Tuscany, Italy

COMMISSIONS

1999             Fremantle Festival 1999 Poster, Fremantle City Council
1994             Design for Woolen Scarf, ‘Print on the Sheep's Back’, Textiles for Nomads
1992             Urban Thresholds poster, Transperth Public Art Programme

COLLECTIONS

Artbank,
Art Gallery of Western Australia,
Bank West,
City of Fremantle,
Edith Cowan University,
Education Department of Western Australia,
Evans & Tate,
Federal Court, Perth
Murdoch University
Joondalup Art Collection,
Royal Perth Hospital Saint
Saint John of God Hospital
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital,
TAFE,
The University of Western Australia,
Wesfarmers
Many private collections in Australia and Internationally (America, Italy, England, France)

BIBLIOGRAPHY (Selected)

2010

Canberra City News. Issue October 28 - November 3, by Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak Kempson’s Light Touch

The Sunday Telegraph, United Kingdom, Stella, This Weeks Must Do and See, pg.10

The West Australian, Today, Visual Arts, Stephen Bevis, All for the Love of Landscape. pg.10.
Jill Kempson’s Oeuvre: Landscape in Perspective , Patrick Le Chanu Translated by Karen Le Chanu 64 pg book on Jill Kempson’s Art Practice related to history of landscape painting in European Art History

2007

Ric Spence, Two Very Different Country Landscapes, Visual Arts, The West Australian pg.7 30 Nov.

Nyanda Smith ABC 720 Art Review Skyscapes 15 December.

2006

Mark Stewart, On Campus, Murdoch University, Vol 21 No 2 Apr pg.7

Nyanda Smith, Master Technique, Insite 8 Autumn Edition p.47

Melbourne Art Fair Catalogue, p. 50 for Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
2004 Simon Blond, Kempson Opens Book of Enlightenment, The West Australian, Jun 5 2004, p.10-11
1995 Cook Robert, Romancing Place, Art and Australia, Dec 1995
1994 FAR Vol.9 No.2, Apr/May 1994, p.17
Britton Stephanie, Art and the Feminist Project, Artlink Vol.14 No. 1 Autumn 1994, p.35-86
1991 Harpley Melissa, Natural and Unnatural Landscape, W.A. Italy, Artlink Vol.11 No.3 Spring 1991, p.63-64
Snell Ted, Affinity Reflects Pilgrims Progress, The Weekend Australian, 23 May 91
Bromfield David, Gods and Poetry in Italian Memories, The West Australian 25 May 1991, p.7

Snell Ted, The Painted Image, Twenty Contemporary WA Painters, pg. 52-55 Western Australian Art No.1 1991

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