Maria Painting

Jill Nichols’ painting explores the earthbound and outer expanses of our divine cosmos. Her sense of color and composition has developed over 30+ years as a commercial artist. She is represented internationally in prominent collections that include a former FBI Director, U.S. Congressman, Yale Medical, and the Vatican. Her commissioned painting of Washington D.C. appeared as a backdrop for James Comey’s interview on “Face the Nation” while another appeared on Showtime’s “The Comey Rule” mini-series. Her artwork “Phi,” which celebrates the divine feminine, was a part of the “Nasty Woman” art social movement in New Haven and then a print went on to be installed in the Vatican Observatory Museum. She has received awards from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and Connecticut Office of the Arts. An active participant in the art communities throughout Connecticut, she has served as vice president for the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society and Valley Arts Council. Her paintings have been exhibited at the Lyme Art Association, Kershner Gallery, Blue Mountain Gallery, Schelfhaudt Gallery, Carriage Barn, Greenwich Art Society, Mary C Daly Gallery, Lyman Allen Museum, Wisconsin Maritime Museum, and Minnesota Marine Art Museum. Jill is an instructor at the Silvermine Art School, in New Canaan, Connecticut, Rowayton Arts Center, and conducts painting workshops locally and abroad. Jill now offers videos on YouTube and holds real-time online painting lessons. Artist Statement My painting is poetry, a lyrical composition of color and light. When painting, I am in the moment, thoroughly present and enraptured. I experience a sense of peace, as well as an urgency to capture and share the moment. It is a privilege to paint. Taking in the invisible birdsong, whispering winds, and luminous clouds, often gone before the brush touches the paint, inadvertently documenting the vanishing in a slipknot along the infinite.