Jill Bennett
"My practice as a printmaker centres around stone lithography where I enjoy benefiting from the painterly possibilities of the medium, the process itself and the decisions and choices to be made, the layering of the colours and the magical moment peeling the paper from the stone. I also appreciate the opportunity stone lithography provides to create and sometimes to re-think the image as the print progresses."
BIOGRAPHY
A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, specialising in Drawing and Painting with experience of etching, I have been a member of EP for around 25 years.
I have been fortunate to be included in two EP portfolios, “Interactions Folio” a stone lithography folio in 2003 and the 50th Anniversary “Paper to Gold Folio” in 2017.
In 2004 I held a solo exhibition in EP “Cycladic Pigeon Houses”, developed around the sculptural monolithic and dovecotes of the Aegean islands. This recurring theme in my practice with the interest in ancient and traditional stone structures also provided centre pieces for further solo exhibitions at the Hellenic Centre, London in 2006 (Peristerionas, Dovecotes of the Cycladic Islands), The Old Custom House, Loggos Paxos, Greece in 2009 (Stone, Sea, Olive) and at the Habitart Centre, Tinos, Greece in 2014 (The Stone and the Dove).
As a member of an artist run print studio in Ceret, France I have participated in group shows in various galleries in that part of southern France. I have been a council member of the SSA and VAS and I am a professional member of both societies. As a member of the society of Scottish Artists I have also been awarded The Eichstatt Lithography Residency in Eichstatt, Germany.
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Vineyards with Casots, 2019Jill Bennett, Vineyards with Casots, 2019195.00
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Pompeiian Fruit Bowl, 2017Jill Bennett, Pompeiian Fruit Bowl, 2017Sold
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Tarabados Church, Tinos, 2017Jill Bennett, Tarabados Church, Tinos, 2017130.00
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Dusk Dovecote Above Tinos Town, 2014Jill Bennett, Dusk Dovecote Above Tinos Town, 2014Sold
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The Pink Casot, Collioure, 2014Jill Bennett, The Pink Casot, Collioure, 2014Sold
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Dovecote Kaparia Andros, 2005Jill Bennett, Dovecote Kaparia Andros, 2005Sold
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Edinburgh Printmakers reveals largest exhibition of members work to date for Hope / Dòchas
14 Nov 2024Hung across Galleries 1 & 2 at Edinburgh Printmakers, Hope/Dòchas is the organisation's biggest display of members’ work to date showcasing the work of 97...Read more -
New members’ exhibition ‘Journey’ at Edinburgh Printmakers
Celebrating the Journey of Edinburgh Printmakers’ Workshop from its beginning in 1967 5 Jan 2024Hung across Galleries 1 & 2 at Edinburgh Printmakers, ‘Journey’ celebrates the ‘journey’ of Edinburgh Printmakers' Workshop itself. Starting as a small collective of imaginative...Read more
