Jill Rousseau

Jill was born in Southampton in 1950. At the age of 11 she was awarded an Art scholarship, which involved painting and working with clay. She has painted consistently since then and at times diversifying into ceramics, working with porcelain. After several years travelling, she opened the popular Dorset Gallery and Wessex Fine Art & Ceramics in Wareham with her husband Michel, a Geophysicist . Jill and Michel sold their gallery and moved to South-West France in 2004.

Jill works mainly in acrylic, built up with layers of paper collage. Her inspiration comes mainly from the elements of fire and water, inspired by her husband's love for rocks and volcanoes. Recently, she has started to work in a series of 3 paintings, each one telling a story. She is constantly photographing the vista at different times of day for inspiration for the next series of work, and is preparing for an open studio event and solo exhibition in September.