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Jill
Perrott
Jill
studied at Elam school of art in the 1960's under Colin
Mc Cahon, Garth
Tapper and Robert Ellis. She then travelled overseas, raised
a family and
worked in educational publishing for several decades, until
the 1990's when
her passion for painting gained momentum. Jill had her first
exhibition in
1997 and has since gone on to win awards and exhibit nationwide.
Jill's
work draws constantly on her love of New Zealand's headlands.
The stark, powerful forms of sea and land-mass are recurring
themes, rendered in a huge array of angles and moods from
the wild and bleak to the quietly
serene. With human activity reduced to insignificance in
these canvases,
energy is instead communicated by lines of cliff and tide,
of manuka and
cabbage trees.
In
her drive to capture the unique colours and textures of
these places -
white light on wet sand, the damp blackness of the bush
- Jill employs the
unconventional painting techniques, including the use of
heavily textured
surfaces and collage-like effects. In her commitment to
portraying the
richness of the natural world she shares the philosophy
of Henry Moore, who commented, "Nature is inexhaustible. Not to look at
and use nature in one's
work is unnatural to me."
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