Meet the Artist: Jill H. Krasner

April 2023—Making art is Jill Krasner’s anchor. In her words, “The process of creating grounds me, keeping me in the moment. There is no past in my studio, no future. There is just now—and now is where I belong, where I do my best work.”

Like most other people, Jill experienced many detours in her life —some big, some small. But when she arrived at Florida’s beautiful West Coast, she found her work changed. It became bright, colorful; lighter and looser. She experimented with new materials, new colors, and new subject matter. “I began adding collage materials and found objects. I started using watercolors and inks along with acrylics. My work became more abstract and symbolic. I rediscovered oil paint, but in a new way, mixing the oils with cold wax to add depth and texture.”

Jill’s bigger-than-life, whimsical portraits of women of a certain age, as well as her beach scenes of cottages, palm trees, and crystal blue skies, are easily recognizable with her signature bold colors and simple descriptive lines. The distinctive characteristics of her work are also obvious in her architectural abstracts, rendered in mixed water media or oils. “In my recent works,” Jill explains, “I layer acrylics or oil paints, collage materials, and cold wax on wood panels, creating textures reminiscent, perhaps, of old ruins and secret passages.”

Jill’s work can be found in juried exhibitions and galleries around the country. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, and is a member of numerous professional water color, acrylic and oil painting organizations. Most recently, Jill had her work featured in the several issues of Watercolor Artist Magazine.

Jill is represented in numerous galleries around the country and scheduled for solo shows in 2022-2023 in Sarasota, Venice, Punta Gorda and Lisbon, Portugal. Locally you can find Jill’s work at Art Uptown Gallery and Chasen Gallery.

To view more of Jill’s work, please visit jillkrasnergallery.com.