Shadowland Painting

Jill Hungerford has been a full time artist for 38 years.She expresses a strong sense of color and drama while blending design and imagination with technical ability.. Her diverse style and mastery over numerous mediums makes Jill's work perfect for both individuals and commercial customers. Jill's strength lies in her ability to work with a client and come up with exactly what they imagined or wished for. Clients are amazed and delighted at Jill's ability to understand their wishes an d to create, original artwork. Jill creates paintings in acrylic, watercolor, and silk paintings. Her sense of color and design ignite Jill's artwork with emotions, feelings, and sensitivity to the world around her. She strives to allow her feelings and intuition influence her work as it progresses. The final result is a fresh , vital, original piece of art. She often paints , layering visuals and imagery. Jill West Hungerford studied at Ohio State University, Columbus college of Art and Design . She apprenticed with a master cloisonné artist for four years.He enamel work trained and inspired Jill's innate color and design sense and was an intensive education in color and shading that influences her paintings to this day. Her paintings range from , ones that explore a subject or environment,such as the ocean as seen by a fish(the colors,bubbles, plants life, ect.)to abstractions of objects such as flowers, to representational work using the human form. Jill says her work is filled with imaginative representations of her world view. "I don't believe things are always as they appear to a single observer. Because of this, my work is a fanciful portrayal of met visions, perceptions, and imagination. I know my perspective will be different from the observers. This is one of the beauties of art. It is a facet of life that is subjective."Often painting interior worlds and themes involving transformation in one form or another. Jill strives for "controlled spontaneity", in as much of her work as possible. That is to say, she strives to allow her feelings and reactions to the subject unfold intuitively as it progresses, resulting in a fresh,vital,and original work of art. Jill resides in Cleveland, Ohio.