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| Jason Lilley b.1966 |
Born: North Cornwall
Studied: Newcastle Polytechnic 1987-90, Falmouth School of Art 1986-87
Returned to live and work in Cornwall: 1991
ITV & Channel Four Television - 'Elements' 1990/91
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Selected One-Person Exhibitions:
2005
Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
2004
Glass House Gallery, Cornwall
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Selected Mixed Exhibitions:
2009
'Three Representational Painters', Belgrave Gallery St. Ives
'Impress print festival', Gloucester
2008
'Prints from the studio', The Poly, Falmouth
'Six of one and half a dozen of the other', Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
2007
'St. Ives, Selected Artists', Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
'Points of view', Glass House Gallery, Penzance
'A Postcard from St. Ives', Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
2006
'The Cornish Connection', Belgrave, London
'Places and Spaces', Belgrave Gallery St. Ives
2005
Mixed exhibitions, Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
2004
Two-person show 'Alternative Views', Out Of The Blue Gallery, Cornwall
'Porthmeor', Belgrave Gallery St. Ives
Thompson's Gallery, London
2003
Belgrave Gallery 'Four For Fore Street'
'Six of the Best', Out Of The Blue Gallery, Cornwall
2002
'A View of St Ives 3', Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
2001
'Another View of St Ives', Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
1997
Two-person show, Out Of The Blue Gallery, Cornwall
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Overview:
Much more than simple visual responses, Cornish-born Jason Lilley's paintings engender a discourse between his own response to the physical, political and spiritual condition of his native county, and the perceptions of those who now claim the county as their own. Painting increasingly in oil (yet retaining the graphite element of a long period which employed elements of abstraction using watercolour and acrylics overlaid by pencil lines), Jason Lilley's paintings look like an individual yet characteristic interpretation of the familiar roofs, streets and coastline around St Ives. However, the work contains an underlying narrative based on the artist's concerns for the interaction between the elements, history and politics of the Penwith area in particular. These narratives are implied through composition, handling of media, visual clues and picture titles. But it is on an aesthetic level that the work finds its clearest appeal, where a developed and direct ease of line leads the eye around considered, sometimes studious, compositions. This facility with line is finding expression in the etchings and aquatints that now constitute a significant part of his output.
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Artist's Statement:
St Ives as a subject is ideal in the way that views there are flattened by the lack of dark shadow. Light, it seems, is bounced off wall after wall from Porthmeor, Porthgwidden and the Harbour. This lack of depth helps concentrate the mind on line, colour, form, and their relationship with each other.
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