Jill Wilson | Reflections on my travels - Morocco to Egypt and beyond

Artist Statement

This exhibition is made up of a combination of works on canvas and Arches and Hahnemuhle papers, using oil paint and mixed media – collagraphic monoprints that are then worked over with paint and in some works pastel, and Lithographs.

The basis of my painting technique usually begins by applying thin washes, of acrylic paint in a totally random way enjoying the paint and applied with a wide decorators brush, and at this stage I have no preconceived idea about the outcome of the painting.

I do however refer indirectly to drawings, photographs, gathered materials and ceramics etc from my travels as the painting starts to develop.

Bundi
11cm x 9cm
Intaglio Monoprint / Paper
$250
Cairo On My Mind
71cm x 52cm
Mixed Media / Paper
$1,100
Alexandria Harbour II
112cm x 137cm
Mixed Media / Paper
$4,500
Girl With Scarf
26cm x 25cm
Lithograph on Paper
$450
Rajasthan Impressions (4 Plates)
51cm x 51cm
Intaglio Monoprint / Paper
$650
Crete Impressions
12cm x10cm
Intaglio Monoprint / Paper
$250

I find my inspiration everywhere when I travel and sometimes in the smallest detail. These works are my feelings , my impressions of where I have been. From the busy and very colourful Alexandria Harbour to picking up a piece of fabric as I walk around the medieval bazaar of Klan al- Khalili. Elements of topographical landscape and many symbols are incorporated into the works as with the large vats in the Tanner`s market in Fez, Morocco. Rajasthan, India is a blur of yellows, pinks,burnt oranges,warm greens subtle indigos and deep maroon reds in the womens sarees, the architectural forms such as wayside shrines, domed mosques, turrets, mughal arches and sparse desert vegetation.

This and the fascination with ancient civilisations is the basis for this work

Fez, Morocco I
76cm x 56cm
Mixed Media / Paper
$1,200
Alexandria Harbour I
42cm x 58cm
Lithograph of Paper
$690
Egypt Impressions
112cm x 137cm
Oil on Canvas
$4,500
Ancient Landscape
60cm x 44cm
Collographic Monoprint
$750
Girl With Earrings
35cm x 39cm
Collographic Monoprint
$490
Fez, Morocco II
76cm x 56cm
Mixed Media / Paper
$1,200
Lyn with Bird
15cm x 15cm
Intaglio Monoprint / Paper
$330
Moroccan Nights
91cm x 91cm
Oil on Canvas
$2,900
Lyn with Scarf
15cm x 15cm
Intaglio Monoprint / Paper
$330