ENC Spring Faire 2012 Featured Artists - Jill Rosoff

Jill Rosoff paints her silk scarves using permanent dye, taking advantage of her love of color and shapes as she develops the designs just for these pieces of wearable art. All of her scarves are hand-painted, and signed and numbered. 

Ms. Rosoff primarily works in watercolors, exploring their intrinsic painterly qualities, using them in ways that diverge from prescribed styles of using them. She experiments in contrasts: textures against flat color blocks, cool vs. warm, dark to light, messier areas against simple, clean ones, and opposites on the color wheel. Her images feature her signature warm, jewel-toned palette, and are inspired by her surroundings and her travels throughout the world, especially in Europe, the Americas and the South Pacific.

“I have been an artist pretty much my whole life. From an early age color delighted me. In every the mediums I’ve worked in, I am always happiest when I’m making art. There is grandeur and simplicity found in both natural and man-made forms. I strive to recognize the elegance in an object’s form, the grace of a flower stem, the convolution of a leaf, and the colors that make them so wonderful and sensual.”

Ms. Rosoff studied at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Bachelors degree from Berkeley in Painting and Drawing followed by graduate work studying printmaking in Florence, Italy. She has exhibited her work for over 25 years in solo shows, group shows and in alternative spaces. She holds watercolor workshops for anyone wanting to learn to paint with watercolors.

www.RosoffArtworks.com