Jill Impey

Jill Impey is a socially engaged artist working with printmaking, mixed media and audiovisual installation.

Her work seeks to connect with nature, to each other. It includes projects with people at the centre as well as making postcard art, almanacs, t-shirts, and framed prints.

Through her artwork, Jill explores the often unnoticed weeds, wildflowers, and mosses, as well as the often talked-about weather and skyscapes, from the minuscule and particular to the vast and universal.

Her collection, “Honouring Weeds, Wild Flowers and Seeds”, came about as the result of online workshops that Jill hosts for Participate co-labs. Each week, she chooses a plant from daily walks and her own wildflower garden to honour, notice and identify by drawing or making a print/collage of that plant. Making in the virtual company of other artists is both inspiring and beneficial for her well-being.

The “Gathering Mosses, Lichen and Fungi” collection followed, and alongside these works, Jill has delivered an Arts Council-supported project, “The Weather Report” which included creating daily photographic, film, or digital drawings recording the weather in the vicinity from Shropshire to Barmouth, Plymouth, and British Columbia.

Jill would love to welcome you to come and talk to her about her new project, “Murmurations”.