Jill can announce that she has been appointed as the Official Artist in Residence at Coventry Cathedral in 2012, their auspicious Golden Jubilee year!
“It is a big thrill for any artist to be appointed the prestigious post of ‘Artist in Residence’ in their career. As an artist of twenty five years experience and a citizen of Coventry, I am extremely happy and honoured to have been given this wonderful appointment.
I am full of ideas and inspiration to try and capture the spirituality of this living, breathing Cathedral and it’s Community”.
Amazingly, Jill is the very first Artist in Residence at Coventry Cathedral.
It is astonishing that her early influences as an art student were the english painters Graham Sutherland and John Piper! Sutherlands’ magnificent Tapestry and Piper’s Stained-Glass Baptistry Windows are among the sublime works of art to be seen at Coventry Cathedral.
Jill is also working on the portrait of the politician Ken Livingstone.
Ken is a member of the centre-left Labour Party in Great Britain.
He was leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until 1986 when it was abolished. Ken served as Member of Parliament for Brent East in London between 1987 to 2000 and was the first elected Mayor of London from it’s creation in 2000 until 2008.
Ken is currently standing as the Labour Party candidate in the London Mayoral Election 2012.