JILL BRANTLEY

About the Artist

Jill Brantley’s paintings are about color, pattern, texture, and found objects all working together to create an image that evokes curiosity and visual excitement in the viewer. Her use of collage builds the surface of a painting, but also adds part of the real world into it as well. The collage objects are familiar; things that speak of their history. This process decelops a story—created from these objects with old or different lives being given a new life, perhaps stimulating a memory or sense of place in the viewer.

Brantley, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, resides in Old Town Alexandria, Va. with her dog Sophie. She started painting in 2000, taking studio art classes at the Art League School located in the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria. She began with drawing classes and then branched out into watercolor and oil eventually settling on painting in acrylic with mixed media collage, as her preferred medium. Since 2010, she has also been a member of the Robert Vanderzee School of Painting located on Lee St. in Alexandria. She has participated in workshops with many local and nationally known artists. She regularly enters juried and group shows. Jill enjoys traveling and believes new places, smells and cultures stimulate her creativity.

For more information about Jill and her art please visit her website at jillbrantleyart.com. Recent exhibitions at Touchstone Gallery include: