Jillian Wordsworth

Christchurch born artist Jillian Wordsworth initially trained in primary education, specialising in art and music. She furthered her interest in art through community art classes and exhibitions, before returning to university to complete a Master’s degree in Fine Art.

Wordsworth’s art explores the interconnectivity of people and place. The landscape has been a recurring motif, influenced in part by her rural Canterbury upbringing. Her meditative works explore the experience of space and the boundaries between physical and metaphysical realms. Utilising ground pigments in a water media, her paintings invite a stillness and quietude, a sanctuary for reflection and introspection. Her charcoal drawings likewise seek to transcend the limitations of the material world, inviting contemplation of possibilities beyond.