POP-UP:
Jill Parry’s, Abstract Conversations
May 8 – 13, 2025

Reception: May 10 , 3:00 – 5:00PM
Artist Talk: Friday, May 9 @ 12:00 PM

Jill Parry is an artist, educator, and curator. She was born in Wales and studied art at Birmingham College of Art in the United Kingdom and the Slade School of Fine Arts in London. She taught textile design at the University of Papua New Guinea and ran a hand-painted silk studio in London before moving to the United States.

Jill’s abstract paintings are influenced by her earlier training in textiles and fiber arts. She now uses paint, layering, printmaking, oil sticks, and drawing to enhance surface quality and texture. Shifting from her earlier figurative style, she now embraces the challenge of abstract painting, creating large, colorful, and expressive pieces that always convey a narrative.

Her intention is to create a surface that can tell a story through visual language.

Her forms derive from observations in daily life: trees, folded fabrics, tangled threads, and open bags scattered across her studio floor.

She likes the viewer to feel the surface's physicality and discover the process's history, sometimes including her original note-making embedded as an integral part of a piece.

In her recent paintings, Jill has challenged herself to make paintings that look like collage, recreating the margins between drawing and painting. She is exploring the boundaries this creates, and the sense of separate worlds colliding or interacting as your eye moves over the intricate surface.

Jill’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries worldwide, as well as in museums, public spaces, and private collections.