"... fascinated by the textures, patterns, colours and light changes in the landscape"
Jill Draper
After gaining a degree at Leicester College of Art in Printed Textiles, I spent many years using fabric dye and machine embroidery as my mediums for depicting the landscape. I learnt the possibilities and limitations of these and wanting a change of direction, and to be known as “an artist” rather than “a crafts person”, have now chosen to concentrate purely on working in watercolour and water-soluble pencils on paper. I am enjoying the new freedom of this, whilst still retaining my personal obsession begun in my embroidered work, for the painting of detail. In both disciplines the process of analysis is the same working out a sequence of layering to achieve the finished image.
I have always been fascinated by the textures, patterns, colours and light changes in the landscape, and passionate about trying to capture them. Recently I have been exploring the play of light on and within water, and capturing how it distorts objects and adds movement and space to a painting.