Jill Barthorpe's work places emphasis on structure and composition. A series of flat and angled planes converging in light filled tones gives her landscapes a real sense of geometric harmony. Jill describes her distinctive approach to colour as an attempt to “…distill the essence and define the point of change rather than model the surface. The resulting paintings contain, in the words of the critic Giles Auty, "... moments of beauty and poetry." Jill graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1985.
