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Jill Atkin from Eugene, Ore., is now exhibiting paintings and pastels at the R.H. Ballard Fine Art Gallery in Washington. Here traditional but lively still life works feature such objects as fruit, flowers, oriental sculpture and porcelain with oriental rugs as a backdrop.
Jill Atkin exhibits her work nationally and was just recently accepted into an exhibition in New York City, and has been juried into and received awards in Montana, California and the Northwest. She is represented by galleries in Oregon as well as Chicago and is in collections throughout the United States and Japan.
Atkin is a signature member of both the Pastel Society of the West Coast, and the Northwest Pastel Society.
Atkin divides her work between oils and pastels, both having an expressive quality. About pastels, she states, "There is a purity to the pigments...the colors are rich beyond any other medium. Because pastels cannot be mixed, only layered, the thought process must be entirely different."
"Combining her still life works with rugs makes her a natural for my gallery," says gallery owner Robert H. Ballard, who has both art and rugs at his location in
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