Jill Matthews

Jill Matthews, "Meyers in French Blue", 14x14 Lemon Still Life Oil Painting

2025

This light, fresh and airy piece, "Blue Bouquet" is a 24x24 oil painting on canvas by artist Jill Matthews. Depicted is a simple contemporary blue floral bouquet in a clear glass vase on a simple white background. About the artist: “I have been creating art on some level for as long as I can remember. Life has led me in various directions but one thing that has always remained a constant is my love for art and involving myself in the creative process. Jill was born and raised in the inspiring state of Vermont. She studied Fine Art at The University of Vermont and upon graduating with a B.S. in Art Education, she moved to San Diego California where she continued studying painting at The University of California San Diego. After a brief career as a fine art educator, she realized her true passion was being more hands on in creating and has been painting professionally ever since. Jill and her family have recently settled back on the east coast from the San Francisco area. She feels so fortunate to be living and working in the inspiring state of Maine. As with anything, art is a process and my recent work is representative of how it has evolved. One of the hardest things as an artist is to find a voice in your work. I spent a long time focusing on replicating things that I saw rather truly seeing them through an artistic eye. My work now is based on an initial idea or vision, I still will use some references in the process, but my most successful moments in painting happen when I lose that security and the work is coming from within. Adding, editing, allowing color interaction...

This fresh and airy bouquet piece, "Picnic Linens and Forsythia is a 24x24 oil painting on canvas by artist Jill Matthews. Depicted is an impressionistic yellow forsythia bouquet in ...

This fresh and airy bouquet piece, "With Love II" is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas by artist Jill Matthews depicting a contemporary floral bouquet of red roses in a glass vase again...

This fresh and airy bouquet piece, "Pink" is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas by artist Jill Matthews depicting a contemporary floral bouquet of pink roses with green leaves against a ...

Zygmund Jankowski (1925–2009) painted traditional subjects with exuberant irreverence for traditional rules of color, composition, and perspective. He disparaged imitation and deligh...

Zygmund Jankowski (1925–2009) painted traditional subjects with exuberant irreverence for traditional rules of color, composition, and perspective. He disparaged imitation and deligh...

Ellipses plays with the nature of awkward interaction and subtle facial expressions. Is it all internal, or can awkwardness feel like a palpable and personified presence? Samantha Van Heest...

This painting was inspired by the artists very first toy, a small blue giraffe, given to her as a day-old baby. It is something that has been around her whole life, and even though it is inanimate, there is a feeling of personification through the years of wear. Her brother as a baby would call giraffes “fa,” which is always a sweet memory she associate with this toy. Samantha Van Heest...