Jill B

Born in August in 1980

I grew up in an environment where art has a place and we look at the world with eyes full of curiosity for what "is and surrounds us." I was influenced from the age of 6 by my father who is an illustrator and figurative painter. I browse countless books on painters in specialized magazines, I am interested in their stories, their styles. I am touched by Fauvist, Impressionist and Cubist painters like Cézanne, Picasso, Mondrian, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Caillebotte, Braque, Chagall, and many others.

Self-taught, I study style drawing and take evening classes in drawing of live models. I collaborate in 2004 in a ready-to-wear brand where I make drawings on the theme of music. Reality bores me, so I prefer to forget it, so I orient myself in contemporary painting. In 2005, I started my first paintings, including the “Little Prince” and “Barcode”.

In 2009, I designed a book "Lights please", which is poetic and philosophical in nature with black and white illustrations to accompany each text. I have worked and traveled, met souls and bodies, I listen to each other's stories. I live in dreams and realities, telling myself that today: “I only live in tubes with plural colors and brushes of various shapes. "

I am inspired by encounters, trips, nature also by the 50s, 60s, 70s. I cultivate my imagination in a positive and creative energy. To paint is to enter another dimension, to escape, to invent a new perspective that lets through the imperfect, the color, the light. It is being able to enter into communion with oneself during creation and to share something concrete with the world.

BJ 2019