Hi, I'm Jill Keller Peters, and I am enamored with the luxurious vibrant qualities of color. I utilize nuances of color to wield feelings and emotion, creating oil paintings that are both abstract AND emotional, full of joy and hope, calm.
I choreograph color with the intention of creating works that elicit a state of wonder and well being, and I paint with a fieriness and affirming jewel like sparkle that is kindled from my own exuberant relationship with color.
The expression of my paintings is like a new language. It is a language developed through the relationships of color, informed by the color theories of Josef Albers and Claude Monet that have been dominant in my work from the beginning of my painting career, from my landscapes forward.
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
My knowledge and practice of color and light have matured from two areas of study. First, I explored light and its effect on film at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara.
Photography taught me to “read” light and to seek out situations that optimize its glowing qualities. It taught me to patiently work out the technical aspects of a lighting challenge and to think analytically.
Secondly, I studied with master colorist, Susan Sarback, (School of Light and Color, Fair Oaks, CA.) from whom I learned the effect of light and color when it is translated into oil painting.
She taught me to be competent in handling paint to convey how light and color create form and space in my landscapes. I drove 2.5 hours each way to class and seminars, and studied with Susan for ten years.
EXPERIENCE
I have been painting since 1996. Prior to delving more fully into abstraction, I have had a career as a painter of impressionistic landscapes.
My work has received recognition both locally and nationally, and I have exhibited my work at Galerie Judith Engelstad (Sausalito, CA) for seven years, as well as in San Francisco, Chicago and Denver.
I am currently showing my work at Andra Norris Gallery in Burlingame and Fulton Crossing in Fulton, CA. I am a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, and have participated in numerous Open Studios with Art at the Source and the Sonoma County Art Trails, have been a member of the Upstairs Art Gallery in Healdsburg and a partner at Graton Gallery. I have served on the Art at the Source Steering Committee for two years.
I have been painting since 1996. Prior to delving more fully into abstraction, I have had a career as a painter of impressionistic landscapes.
My work has received recognition both locally and nationally, and I have exhibited my work at Galerie Judith Engelstad (Sausalito, CA) for seven years, as well as in San Francisco, Chicago and Denver.
I am currently showing my work at Andra Norris Gallery in Burlingame and Fulton Crossing in Fulton, CA. I am a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, and have participated in numerous Open Studios with Art at the Source and the Sonoma County Art Trails, have been a member of the Upstairs Art Gallery in Healdsburg and a partner at Graton Gallery. I have served on the Art at the Source Steering Committee for two years.
I find my artistic inspiration from spending time in nature. My husband is a chef and native of Switzerland, and hiking in the Swiss Alps with him has been the treat of my life. We live in the wine country in Sonoma County, California, surrounded by an ocean of vineyards.
Andra Norris Gallery in Burlilngame, CA, Fulton Crossing in Fulton, CA, Upstairs Art Gallery in Healdsburg, CA, Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, The Passdoor, Sebastopol, CA,
Sonoma County ArTrails, Art at the Source Open Studios, Graton Gallery, Graton, CA, Galerie Judith Englestad, Sausalito, CA.
Sonoma County ArTrails, Art at the Source Open Studios, Graton Gallery, Graton, CA, Galerie Judith Englestad, Sausalito, CA.