REVIEWS

“I recognise in Jill Ogilvy’s work something of the same intelligence and underlying boldness that I find in the Kettle’s Yard House. ….

Jill’s paintings succeed because they are about much more than process. As Jill says ‘they become what I feel about colour, shape and form’. Her use of colour, pattern and different materials is confident, bold and somehow personal too. If the vessel in ‘Marine Finds’ sits in an unstable sea, other vessels feel calmer and controlled as in ‘Garden Pots’ or ‘Blossoming’. Each work feels special and distinct. …

Jill’s prints too have a similar simplicity and underlying richness of ideas and emotion as the paintings. They are part of a long tradition of ‘still life’ in art and yet feel present and contemporary. Above all they reveal an artist whose work reminds us again of the great pleasure to be found in colour and form, so we can see the rest of the world again with new eyes.”

Andrew Nairne OBE, Director, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.