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

June 2010.

I have returned from my fantastic journey to London and Europe. The exhibition in London at The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, was a great experience, having my work hanging in the Bloomsbury area of London, which is steeped in a rich artistic heritage, was a privilege. And also working with the renowned gallery owner Rebecca Hossack was a treat.

The Preview of my recent show ' In and Out of Norfolk', at Rebecca's was very exciting. Friends came from far and wide to be there and Patrick and Karen Le Chanu (authors of the book) especially came from France for the event. William the Earl of Huntingdon gave a fantastic opening speech that I was bowled over by it's eloquence and wide reaching references to art, gardening and sense of place! This also was incredibly humbling and special. If you would like to view a recording of this speech on You Tube please go to the About page of this website.Or the link is just below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGma0NRGVUw

The book Jill Kempson's Oeuvre: Landscape in Perspective by Patrick Le Chanu and Translated by Karen Le Chanu, has now been published and is currently available in Bookstores and Galleries in Perth and Fremantle WA. Retailing at AUD $39.00 - $40.00

Galerie Dusseldorf, Mosman Park.
Kidogo House Art Gallery, Bather's Beach, Fremantle.
New Edition's Bookshop, Fremantle
Dymock's, Fremantle
National Gallery of Victoria

If you live somewhere other than WA and are interested in a copy of the book, I could see what I can do to get one to you. There's a contact email on this website please feel free to contact me.

Also there will be a Book Launch of 'Landscape in Perspective' on the 13 August, 6-8 pm. Some recent paintings that relate to Patrick's book will be exhibited and available for acquisition. You are most welcome to come to this launch at:
Galerie Dusseldorf, 9 Glyde Street Mosman Park, WA

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

If you would like to see images of the paintings that were in the exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London please go to the website www.r-h-g.co.uk

This project was funded by the Western Australian Department for Culture and the Arts with a Development Grant for the trip to Norfolk and help with the exhibition costs. Subsequently I received a Mid-Career Fellowship grant to help fund the production of "Landscape in Perspective' by Karen and Patrick Le Chanu.