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I’m Jill Keller Peters: painter, color explorer, writer, passionate backgammon player, dancer. When I go into my studio to paint, I am mindful of the strength of beauty, light and color. Expressing these elements with oil paint ushers in a whole new world of depth and design. When I look to grace and beauty, and I am open to reaching for that higher thought that lifts one out of one's circumstances, the painting in progress becomes a talisman, a prayer. I paint daily and am devoted to creating strong, rich, luminous oil paintings using color as language. The result is a force of creativity and wholeness. |
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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 show 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.
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 show 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.
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participated in numerous Open Studios with Art at the Source EXPERIENCE
I have been painting since 1996. Prior to delving more fully into geometric 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 a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, and have participated in numerous Open Studios with Art at the Source |
and Sonoma County ArTrails, was a partner at Graton Gallery, and served on the Art at the Source steering committee for two years.
I find much of my artistic inspiration from spending time in nature and hiking. My husband is a chef and a native of Switzerland, and hiking in the Swiss Alps with him is the treat of my life. We live in the wine country in Sonoma County, California, surrounded by an ocean of vineyards.
I find much of my artistic inspiration from spending time in nature and hiking. My husband is a chef and a native of Switzerland, and hiking in the Swiss Alps with him is the treat of my life. We live in the wine country in Sonoma County, California, surrounded by an ocean of vineyards.
Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, The Passdoor, Sonoma County ArTrails, Art at the Source
Open Studios, Graton Gallery, Graton, CA, Galerie Judith Englestad, Sausalito, CA.
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