Jill Pilon

I was born and raised throughout the US. In my twenties I travelled, creating the fertile ground for which my artist seed was planted. I now live in East Vancouver, where on a daily basis I see and experience beauty and love, as well as pain and ugliness - the opposites forever present in all things..
I started painting to tell stories, whether it be my story or those emerging from all that I see. There are intimate memories in everything. I paint the stories of rotting wood in crumbling walls and of rusted hubcaps on dusty roads. I imagine wet paint dripping down an old picket fence and see the hands that built the fence and the hands that mend it. 
As an emerging artist, I continue to explore different forms of expression. Acrylic,collage and photographs are some of the mediums I am currently using.
My work evolves daily - a constant, non-static meditation on objects, events and small things. Children and wooden toys weave their way into my work. From playground fantasies to mothering my three children, painting is my voice.

Emily Carr Art Institute -Fine arts certificate program 2011