Jill Leir-Salter Featured Works: Autumn Splendor Shafts and Shadows Break of Day Cliffs and Clouds

Artist's Statement

Jill's love of nature and landscape painting is obsessive-compulsive. It often starts with a sudden visual impact then develops into a strong emotion that demands a challenge. The challenge is then life and food for the imagination. She prefers watercolors because they are spontaneous and unpredictable.

Born and raised in Penticton, BC, one of eleven children, she ran free and close to a natural environment. Her large stone family home, now Leir House Cultural Centre, was surrounded by ten acres of pine trees and bunch grass. Drawing and painting were part of childhood

Jill has lived in other parts of Canada and the U.K. where she always took advantage of any formal art instruction. This included two semesters in Fine Arts at Okanagan College.

Her paintings hang in many private collections. They have also hung in Juried Art Shows and at the B.C. Festival of the Arts. Recent exhibitions include:

• 1998 Solo show at the Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton.
• 2000 Two person show with a pottery artist at the Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks

Contact Jill at (250) 497-5172 or Email salterk@shaw.ca

"Break of Day"© watercolor (16.5" x 20.75")

"Cliffs and Clouds"© watercolor (14" x 16")

Local Art Venues

Some of the current local Art Venues are:

AGSO - Art Gallery of the South Okanagan - #199 Front Street

The Lloyd Gallery - #598 Main Street

Leir House Cultural Centre

Tumbleweed Gallery - #67 Front Street