Peace Dove Journals
Jill Emery is a self-taught artist/musician from California, where she started playing bass in her teens in LA punk bands, eventually becoming a part of Superheroines, Hole, Mazzy Star and others. While she enjoyed the collective creativity of bands, she found visual arts to be a great solitary creative outlet.
As a folk expressionist she explores themes of life, death, spirit, favorite bands/people and giving voices to animals. Jill says her process through imagination keeps her laughing and gives life to many of her pieces. ‘Lately part of my process in painting has been to think about words in a poetic/symbolic sense its pretty free flowing and completely cathartic. While creating i add layers hoping the feeling is conveyed as a life, cells holding memories, sometimes words or images bleed through as if representing.’