Abstract Painting
The abstract paintings of Jill Caldwell draw upon her East Coast experiences spanning from Massachusetts, where she grew up and attended the Massachusetts College of Art, to Key West, Florida, where she absorbed the tropical atmosphere for eight years, to Mid-Coast Maine, her current home. She mixes her sense of place -those influences coming through her eyes in the form of light, shape, color, line, shadow and composition- with her interior landscape. "When painting", she explains, "I tap into this non-verbal chasm. The process of building a painting engages me. The layering of material, the texture, the revealing and editing, it is the history, it is the journey that becomes the painting."
Jill makes Key West a reference point in her wonderful abstract paintings; the inspiration this island provides is evident in her work. She is skilled at capturing the special light of this place in her sun drenched canvases, and at translating the cool tranquility of water and sky into two dimensions.
Caldwell's work is passionate and at the same time filled with restraint, conveying a complex range of emotions that spring to life as you look at her work. Playfulness is there too, in many layers of color and texture, in what is included and what has been left out.
|  |  |  | A Moment of Light
| Worlds Within
| Beneath the Glow
|  |  |  | Surge
| Within the Dream
| Another Day
|  |  |  | What You Find
| Color Coded
| Aquatic Dance
|  |  |  | Night Sequence 1
| Night Sequence 2
| Nights Return
|  |  |  | Reflecting You
| Calling Me Home
| Passing Through
|  |  |  | Cool Heat
| Tide Water
| Rising To See
|  |  |  | Pushing Day
| Emerging
| Elements
|  |  |  | Little Something 10
| Little Something 11
| Little Something 12
|  |  |  | Little Something 13
| Little Something 14
| Little Something 15
|  |  | | Pink Love
| Color Study
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