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Jill Murray Jill finds clay (the very earth itself), which can be both fluid and rock hard, to be a wonderful material to give form to these ideas. Her favourite firing technique is raku because the touch of the fire remains apparent in the finished piece. The dragon within, inner movement or emotion, she expresses through mask making. Very ancient art and eastern imagery influences Jill’s work. Her first show, in 2000, was at the Elements Gallery in Kelowna. Jill was “Show-cased” in the Kelowna Capital News at this time. In 2001 she had a show at the Summerland Art Gallery and participated in OTISS, demonstrating ceramic scupture while watching sculptors from around the world work on site in Kelowna. Each year since she has been part of Lake Country’s “Art Walk”. Other group shows include Jasper’s Brushfire Gallery’s “Epicycle”, Art for Social Change, and the Life and Art’s Festival in Kelowna. The Hambleton Galleries (Kelowna) and Pacif’ic Gallery (Saskatoon) also carry a selection of her work. |
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During
summer break from her art studies at the U of S, Jill fell in love with
Japanese Tea Bowls and subsequently apprenticed in Japan to experience
the culture that spawned them. Soon after returning to set up her own
studio, other life adventures intervened until 1996 when she worked
for three years at the Okanagan Pottery Studio. During this time her
interest in Eastern arts and philosophy led to Tai-chi camp where she
fell in love again. This time with Baqua, a martial art full of spiralling,
circular movement like the movement of nature. She began making dragons
to express this movement in clay. The dragon symbolizes life-force or
creative energy, the union of heaven and earth. This is our human potential.
