Jill M. Pottle is an artist from Worcester County and she exhibits her paintings and pastels locally and nationally. She graduated from Syracuse University with her BFA and graduated with her MFA from the Museum School in Boston. She has been a fine arts teacher for 35 years. Her works have been included in shows at the Concord Art Center and the East End Gallery in Provincetown, MA. She had a duo show at the St. Botolph Club in Boston.
In the 2011 season she was the artist in residence at the Fruitlands Museum from April-November. Her accomplishments include being in a variety of collections: Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged in Roslindale, MA, Sterling Drug Inc. and Fidelity in Boston. She won two grants from the Somerville Artists lottery and has published in the “Artists Magazine”. Presently she is represented by Fountain Street Gallery.
“My paintings and drawings have been described as expressionist realism. The materials I use to create are: oils, acrylics, dry and oil pastels and sometimes collage materials. I am fascinated with common household items that we take for granted. In my work I explore the humor, emotion and the relationships, (emulating human), between objects. The controlled lighting and stationary subject matter facilitate the rendering, allowing me to involve myself more directly in the emotional tension between the objects.”
“Painting is about process and I mourn when a painting is finished. I get lost in the moment, searching for that perfect brush stroke or that delicious color combination that leads to vivid illusion of reality. I work from life but I reinterpret the subject into a more personal response to color, form, pattern and light. Anthropomorphous shapes can be seen in my vacuum paintings where they appear to feel like an old married couple.”