“In her Between Light and Shadow, her carefully wrought style reaches a peak of bold brevity, refining her classic, clear simplicity and exulting in the sensation of soft pre-dawn light. She expands her perfectly rendered oil and gesso paintings into a meaningful dimensionality… that dance in light and shadow.”

Genie Davis, Days of Reverie, Catalog

“Sykes creates luscious and juicy almost expressionistic surfaces…(she) likes to focus on what she calls the “random patterning” inherent in plant life, which creates a rippling rhythm across the canvas.”

The Zen of Nature or Nature as Meditation;

Nancy Kay Turner, Coagula Art Journal

STATEMENT

We as artists create objects that nourish and enrich existence, and as such what we do, consciously or not, has profound effect. The images I create are about life and the sheltering aspects of Nature – I focus on botanical forms and the abstracted spaces I find between individual branches and leaves. These paintings are sophisticated in terms of color and form, and yet remain incredibly soothing and serene.

Jill Sykes is a painter living in Los Angeles and has maintained a studio at the Brewery Art Colony since 1996. Her work is included in many private and corporate collections including Omgivning Architecture Interiors, Kovac Design Studios, Kelly Wearstler, and Saks Fifth Avenue. Her paintings have been featured in exhibitions throughout Southern California and across the country including The Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale, CA, The Museum of Art + History (MOAH) in Lancaster, CA, the Santa Paula Art Museum in Santa Paula, CA, El Camino College Art Gallery in Torrance, CA, the Riverside Art Museum, and Scape Gallery in Corona del Mar, CA.