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jillianknipestudio

Australian-British Artist in London
PAINTING too many colours too many patterns
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Back from Australia, back in the studio, back to t

Back from Australia, back in the studio, back to the canvas ... work work work ... thinking about eyeline and skyline and line of vision but I've no idea if that relates to my painting 🤷‍♀️

Grateful Gifting to the talented composer Andy Tay

Grateful Gifting to the talented composer Andy Taylor (not the Duran Duran one!) who did a tip top job co-creating a little "um" sound piece for my 2024 solo show 'Rhythmic Dreaming at the Edge of a Storyline'.

Windows of Possibility 1, 2021 + 2024
collage and frame
30 x 25cm

Pumping a little new life into old castaways ...

Pumping a little new life into old castaways ...

Outposts 2021 + 2025
liquid and metallic acrylic and interference on canvas
50 x 40 cm

Pumping a little new life into old castaways ...

Pumping a little new life into old castaways ...

Gold Fabric Dreaming 2021 + 2025
liquid acrylic and interference on canvas
50 x 40 cm

apparently watching paint dry is boring 🤷‍♀

apparently watching paint dry is boring 🤷‍♀️

Just about done . While in dire need of a professi

Just about done . While in dire need of a professional photographer, my wall mural is an unplanned mix of what looks to be interior bodies bits, watery whirly whorls and petri dish portholes . Quite satisfying incl restricting paint colours to those throughout the rest of the apartment .

Friday 7 March BOOKING LINK in profile Busy bus

sketchy details ... looking thinking re-arranging

sketchy details ... looking thinking re-arranging time 🙃

Nothing like a 3 hour train journey to get drawing

Nothing like a 3 hour train journey to get drawing while looking out the window . I begin with a kind of mindless mapping of the landscape before me - shrubbery, branches, rooftops, fence posts, etc - drawn super quickly and only partially as the scene whizzes past . Then I try to "make sense" of it in a somewhat irrational but definite way . In this case I've reversed the paper and loosely drawn a mix of UK wildflowers . Then balanced the images with minute details which respond to the given marks . This reversal is something I'm continually fascinated by, from double sided renaissance drawings (for paper saving efficiency) to artist sketchbooks where all sorts of unexpected compositions occur by accident .

Travel Notes (London to Exeter)
2025
marker pens on A4 archival paper

#wildflowers
#ukwildflowers

Slow Sunday curiosity looking back on how old work

Slow Sunday curiosity looking back on how old works have been produced ...

Paper Cuts and Cover Ups 2019
acrylic, ink, graphite on canvas
100x80cm

still messing about with vague intentions ...

still messing about with vague intentions ...

... still all very makeshift in the studio ... sti

... still all very makeshift in the studio ... stitching together (how can anyone possibly do this willingly and constantly and consistently @pembertonqwilts ?!??!) test scraps from my Resilience paintings shown recently @ascgallery ...

@delphiangallery
#delphianopencall2025

Still WIPing this epilogue of sorts to my 'Resilie

Still WIPing this epilogue of sorts to my 'Resilience' series. I'm building up the flighty remnants on the reverse of a failed painting . A ghostly image is slowly appearing and my challenge now is to keep the rhythm and movement by not overworking it 🤞

The nine key paintings of 'Resilience' appeared in my solo show in 'Rhythmic Dreaming at the Edge of a Storyline' @ascgallery .

today's gentle drama

today's gentle drama

Right now I am reconsidering failure and reconstit

Right now I am reconsidering failure and reconstituting discards as an epilogue to my Resilience Series . One of my 9 main paintings didn't work (I went off piste and fell) so I'm doing a literal about turn and painting on the reverse side of the canvas . I also have a bunch of test pieces on the way to Shibori dyeing so I'm stitching them together and have no idea what I'll do next 🤷‍♀️

Merry Christmas if there could ever be such a thin

Merry Christmas if there could ever be such a thing . Pockets of jolly and buckets of kindness . For me this has been a particularly up year and a particularly down year, of loss and achievement . More of the same ahead as is life and pressing on with hopefulness . Be safe one and all X

Writhing at Sunset, 2023 liquid acrylic, metallic

Writhing at Sunset, 2023
liquid acrylic, metallic acrylic on canvas
180x80cm
images @vinx_imagehead

'Entangled, cocooned, trapped in a vortex. A dull calm. Radiance beckons from the edges yet how to break free of the thicket enclosing the pain within? Jagged translucent waves ripple, illuminating what’s beneath the surface, spilling into the next canvas where they darken.'
(Excerpt from accompanying essay 'Resonance and Reverberations' by @fullerton_eliz)

Recently shown in 'Rhythmic Dreaming at the Edge of a Storyline', a solo exhibition of nine paintings from the RESILIENCE series at @aschandbagfactory .

RESILIENCE takes on mythological, historical and contemporary stories of survival and its aftermath, drawing specifically on feminist theory and reappraisals of female iconography. Source materials include historical fables of three sisters such as Macbeth‘s three fates, Medusa and the gargoyles, as well as individual wild women mythologies from across the globe and throughout history. Right up to today’s Princess Mononoke from Japan’s Studio Ghibli.

Slouching Towards Fall, 2023 liquid acrylic, metal

Slouching Towards Fall, 2023
liquid acrylic, metallic acrylic on canvas
180x80cm
images @vinx_imagehead

'Branches tugging downward, clawing into the obscurity from which occasional eyes peer out. Watchful. Sinking beneath layers of hair-branches that merge with subterranean mycelium networks. Can the centre hold or must we confront the “rough beast” that slouches toward Bethlehem of Yeats’ poem?'
(Excerpt from accompanying essay 'Resonance and Reverberations' by @fullerton_eliz)

Recently shown in 'Rhythmic Dreaming at the Edge of a Storyline', a solo exhibition of nine paintings from the RESILIENCE series at @aschandbagfactory .

RESILIENCE takes on mythological, historical and contemporary stories of survival and its aftermath, drawing specifically on feminist theory and reappraisals of female iconography. Source materials include historical fables of three sisters such as Macbeth‘s three fates, Medusa and the gargoyles, as well as individual wild women mythologies from across the globe and throughout history. Right up to today’s Princess Mononoke from Japan’s Studio Ghibli.

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