Jill Hooper
"Jill's work combines a contemporary vision with an artistic style steeped in the tradition of the old Masters. Her figure studies and still life paintings transcend time and place."
-- Angela Mack, Curator Gibbes Museum of Art
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Realist painter Jill Hooper was born in upstate New York in 1970, and was also raised in North Carolina. Hooper remembers the beginnings of her love for drawing at an early age. During the pursuit of her undergraduate degree at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, Hooper spent time abroad in a summer program in Florence, Italy, under D. Jeffrey Mims in 1992 and continued to study under him for various periods of time until 1999. From 1992 to 1993, Hooper studied at the Universite de Haute Bretagne in Rennes, France, and at L'Atelier du Thabor, also in Rennes. In 1994, the artist graduated from the College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a minor in political science.
Permanent Collection of the Gibbes Museum of Art
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The classical training Hooper began in Florence led to further study of still-life composition, portraiture, and finally figure under Mims. Various study sojourns in the deserts of Utah and museums of London have helped her training with the desert's colorful palette and
the perfection of the Greek antiquities to draw from in the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Her aspiration is to paint figural pieces exemplifying the passages of life in singular moments of solitude, joy, pain, etc.
Hooper has exhibited in North and South Carolina and France. Her work is collected in two museums, including the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, where she is the youngest living artist ever to be exhibited and collected. The artist recently returned from Florence, where she was under the tutelage of renowned Realist painter Charles Cecil, at the Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy. Currently, she works and resides in Charleston.
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