Detail, ‘I Am the Shaper’
If you like the look of any piece here, just drop me an email at jill@jilltattersall.co.uk I can make a date for you to see it, tell you more, or simply send further details. Each piece is a complete one-off: no prints or copies.
Origins and Stories
I was once a medievalist, teaching early French literature. This led me to the creation myths: Norse, Eastern, European, Aboriginal, Darwin’s Tree of Life and the Philogenetic Tree (science), Tree of Knowledge and Jesse’s Tree (Bible), Yggdrasil (mythology) and so many more….
I’m overawed by early cave and rock art, made long ago with the simplest most elemental means. People looked up into the night sky just as we do and must have asked the same questions about their place in the universe..
- Harvest Moon (sold)
- Alternative Worlds (sold)
- Moon, Flight of Birds (sold)
- Night Sky (Aquarius) (sold)
- Night Sky, 1066
- Summer Solstice (sold)
- Origins: Night Hunter (sold)
- Origins: Tree of Life (sold)
- Origins: Tree of Life (detail)
- Magna Carta: Night Sky (sold) 1215
- Magna Carta: Night Sky, 1mx1m25cm
- Night Sky, Late Winter (sold)
- Respected Sir (sold)
- Time Past (sold)
- Half Truth (sold)
- Stories in Stone
- Mending the Past (sold)
- Show of Hands (sold)
- Black Moon (sold)
- Universal Origins (sold)
- Total Eclipse (sold)
Coasts and Maps
I used to live as far from the sea as you can get on this island. But like most of us I was fascinated by coastlines and the sea. I moved, and till recently lived on the South Coast, where the light is fabulous . I try to avoid trite seaside scenes and ration myself to a few sea-related pieces a year.
- Light on the Haven (sold)
- Looking from the Cliff (sold)- sold at the Affordable Art Fair
- Evening Haven (sold)
- Murmuration, before the Storm (sold)
- Seaside Past
- Murmuration 2 (sold)
- The Shipping Forecast
- The Shipping Forecast
- Quiet Shore (Murmuration) (sold)
- Sea Mist (near Pevensey) (sold)
- Horizon
- Sea Mist (sold)
- Leaving Newhaven (sold)
- Moon, Flight of Birds (sold)
- Towards the West (sold)
- Quiet Sea (detail)
- Quiet Sea (sold)
- Towards Seven Sisters (study)) (sold)
- Brighton Glimpses: mixed media on cedar blocks.
- Beach-huts in the snow (sold)
- Brighton Glimpses: seagull (sold). night sky (sold)
- Beach Huts (sold)
- Silver Coast (sold)l
- Beach Huts 2 (detail)
- East Coast (sold)
- Coast series, handmade paper and reclaimed wood
- Leogria (sold)
Town and Country
Subjects just crop up: loaves of bread, a stretch of pavement, a passing scene, reflections in a train window. Often I use my own hand-made cast or moulded cotton paper. I then build up intense colour with washes of paints, inks, dyes and pigments. Labour-intensive, highly individual. The paper has a seductive, unpredictable surface – I like the danger and uncertainty this brings. You can wreck a promising painting at any moment.
- Across the Valley
- Faraway Field (sold)
- Lady of the Downs
- Arrival, York
- Leaving Brighton (sold)
- Leaving York Again (sold)ld)
- Tree, Starlight (sold)
- Recollections (sold)
- Across the Water (Sheffield Park) sold
- Message, Dungeness
- En Prison: Graffiti (sold)
- Dungeness 2 (sold)
- Trees in the Mist 2 (sold)
- Trees in the Mist 1 (sold)
- Trees in the Mist 4 (sold)
- Last Light (sold)
- Trees in the Mist 3 (sold)
- First Snow, Hove (sold)
- Naive Alphabet
- Green Tree
- From the Madness to the Minster
- Brighton Tea-Gown
- Hove Tea-Gown
- Maisie’s Dress (sold)
Abstracts and Patterns
Serendipity. I’m obsessed with pattern on every scale: natural and man-made. Science constantly provides new examples. Force meets force. Something happens. From this universe of patterns my urge towards abstraction grows – a desire to convey the sense of things rather than just describe or mimic them.
- Red Windows (sold)
- Waste Not (sold)
- Waste not (detail)
- Behind My Eyes
- The Face of the Waters
- Blue Intersection (sold)
- Trees at Speed 1 (sold)
- Trees at Speed (pair, sold))
- Trees at Speed 2 (sold)
- Paper Circles
- Hot Corner!
- The Streams Thereof
- Naive Alphabet
- Tremor (now in Peru, sold)
- Design for Life (sold)
- Dungeness 2 (sold)
- Beneath My Feet (sold)
- Blue Rhapsody
Botanica
Paintings large and small, some commissioned, about favourite plants and flowers. I love plants for their intricate and varied shapes and colours and – of course – fruits. Medieval herbals intertwine text, images and commentary. I’ve tried to find my own way of approaching these subjects.
- Quince (cydonia oblonga)
- Quince (sold)
- Quince (sold. detail)
- Kiwi (detail)
- Ginkgo biloba
- Fig (Ficus carica)
- Giant Squash
- Medlar (detail)
- Fig leaf on yellow (sold)
- Aubergine
- Aubergine (detail)
- Vitis vinifera
- Figs on garden table
- fig leaf (detail)
- Carpe Diem (book detai)
- Vitis Vinifera (commission)
- Mulberry (commission)
- Botanical art in garden room
Selected archive
Here are some of the hundreds of paintings I’ve sold over the last twenty years or so, some in their new homes. If they sell through a gallery, I often don’t know where paintings go. So it’s really great to receive photos from new owners and sometimes meet them.
- Seeds of Change
- To the Woods
- Philogenetic Tree
- Writings (CAS Prize)
- Beginnings
- Origins: Human Tree
- In the Beginning
- Darwin ‘s Tree: ‘I Think’
- Design for Life
- Mud Cracks, fossils
- Prehistoric Bird
- Phoenician Sage
- Woodscape, earliest Spring
- Specimens
- Book Moth (sold)
- Natural History series, Peacock (sold)
- Natural history series, Owl without Pussycat (sold)
- Cat Jeoffrey (sold)
- The Late Canty (sold)
- Halki Cat (sold)
- Gigha (sold)
- Reflections, Dene View (sold)
- Cells, felt on paper, Lincs
- Beach Huts (Leeds home)
- Salvia (print) at Knapeney
- Knapeney Farm
- Patterns of Life chez Ruth, Hove
- Collection of Clare&Graham Herring
- Collection of Clare&Graham Herring
- Collection of Clare&Graham Herring
- Collection of Clare&Graham Herring
- Faded garden (collection of the late John O’Meara
- Newark Town Hall (Old White Hart)
- Hall Farm collage
- Quince at Hall Farm
- Salvia Officinalis in Dilston Physic Garden
- Vitis vinifera commission
- Textile collage, Dorset
- Recycled series
- Homer’s Moly at Hall Farm
- Recycled series
- In Gary the Guita’s lair
- Recycled series
- Recycled series
- Recycled series
- Recycled series
- Recycled series
- Recycled series
- Recycled series
- Recycled series
- Recycled series
Work in preparation or newly-finished, paintings out at exhibitions, frames being made; in fine weather, papermaking. That’s life at The Wolf at the Door. You’re welcome to visit ; let me know if there’s anything special you wish to see.