Description
53rd Annual Mark Twain Library Art Show
Artist’s Bio:
Jill Harrington Nichols
Harrington-Nichols’s work reflects her appreciation of nature’s beauty fostered in coastal Connecticut and heightened while exploring locations around the globe, and the untethered reaches of the cosmos. Her plein air and studio paintings are as varied as the subject matter, while evoking a sense of mystery and wonder.
Her work is in international collections, including those of a former FBI director, a U.S. Congressman, Yale Medical, and the Vatican. Her paintings appeared in the TV news show, “Face the Nation,” and Showtime’s “The Comey Rule,” an American political drama.
She has received awards from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and Connecticut Office of the Arts. She is an active participant in the art community. Her paintings have been exhibited at the Lyme Art Association, Kershner Gallery, Small Blue Mountain Gallery, Schelfhaudt Gallery, Carriage Barn, Greenwich Art Society, Mary C. Daly RSM Art Gallery at the Mercy Center, Lyman Allen Art Museum, Wisconsin Maritime Museum, and Minnesota Marine Art Museum.
Her aesthetics developed over 30-plus years as a commercial artist. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2000, she turned her focus to painting. She trained at the Art Students League in NYC, and in 2015 earned her MFA in painting at Western Connecticut State University.
Harrington-Nichols conducts painting workshops in Europe, Silvermine Art School, and Rowayton Arts Center, as well as real-time online painting classes and videos on YouTube.
Learn more about Jill Harrington Nichols at her website at www.jillnichols.com.
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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 canvas. Inadvertently documenting the vanishing in a slipknot along the infinite.
