Original painting by Jill Kempson

Jill Kempson

Over the last twenty-five years, Jill Kempson has forged a practice that features a dialogue across time, as well as across continents. Her work emerges as a meditation upon place taking in different locations, a refining of simple landscape elements – ground, sky, water and vegetation.

Nyanda Smith

February 2011
I am currently working towards an exhibition which will be held at Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth. Which will open July 2011.

A book on my art practice ' Jill Kempson's Oeuvre: Landscape in Perspective' by Patrick Le Chanu, has now been published, thanks to a Mid-Career Fellowship Grant from the Department for Culture and the Arts WA to fund the production. The book has 38 high quality reproductions of my paintings and 6 Old Master's plates.
It is currently available in Bookstores and Galleries in Perth, Fremantle WA. New Editions, Dymocks Fremantle, Western Australian Art Gallery, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth and in Melbourne at the Ian Potter Gallery. 'Landscape in Perspective' can be borrowed from the State Libraries in Melbourne and Brisbane. The book is also held in the research library, National Museum of Art, Washington DC. USA
Here is a brief summary of what the book is about.
'What place does landscape painting hold in the twenty-first century? The rise of abstraction and conceptualism, and the dominance of ‘contemporary art’, has mostly eclipsed landscape painting – but Jill Kempson is an artist who transcends art styles and genres.'
Patrick Le Chanu has known Kempson and followed her artistic evolution for more than twenty years. In bringing together the artist’s extensive body of work, Le Chanu shows us how ‘landscape painting has the capacity to express all the colours and dimensions of the human soul’.
Originally written in French, Landscape in Perspective is here meticulously translated by Karen Le Chanu.
'Landscape in Perspective demonstrates that, in artists such as Kempson, easel painting remains relevant and vibrant, with landscape painting at the heart of the great concerns of our time.' -- Deb Fitzpatrick, March 2010