Jill Meager
Jill trained at Cambridge University and Putney School of Art and Design. Raised in rural Scotland, she primarily works in response to wildlife – its resilience, its design and now increasingly its vulnerability.
Current themes:
The Corvid family – Ravens, Rooks and Crows. Travelling round the UK, she has collated a body of work celebrating the antics of these intelligent and resourceful creatures.
Darwin’s Birds: Mixed media explorations of loss.
Solo portraits: Large, single portraits of animals and birds
Idris Elba and Happy Cow
Great to see my Happy Cow print on the wall in the latest Sky TV ad with the amazing Mr Elba. What good company she
Peregrine falcon
This is a commission from earlier this year and is such a beautiful bird, blue-grey above with a blackish top of the head and white
Snappy the Crayfish
Another commission from this year – a blue-ringed crayfish. Exquisite creatures of such intricacy. They regularly moult off their entire exo-skeleton and emerge brand new
Wildlife at The Shard
Hare 20, Coal tit and Frigatebird are on show as part of the Shard Elevate_Art exhibition from February 7 – April 30 2019. A radical
Cyril
Cyril was commissioned this spring for a small girl after she became fascinated by the squirrel activity in her back garden. Cyril sits and eats
Biography and Exhibitions
2012 V&A Inspired by: finalist
2012 Morley Gallery Draw More: finalist
2014 National Open Art Competition: finalist
2016 Michael Morpurgo short story: Hare 1 selected illustration
2017 House and Garden Magazine 70th Anniversary Edition: featured artist
2015-19 Christmas card illustrations for Farms for City Children and InterAct Stroke Support
2019 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition shortlisted
A selection of my work is held at the Jane Newbery Gallery, 84 Dulwich Village London SE21 7AJ
I am member of ARTCAN
Crow, National Open Art Competition
Jane Newbery Gallery
84 Dulwich Village SE21 7AJ
Art at the Shard
February 6-August 30
Selected works at The Shard London
April 30-September 30
ArtCan 44 Hallam St W1
May 13-18
From the Studio Floor, St Barnabas, Cambridge
June 14-16
AAH Artists at Home, Chiswick www.artistsathome.co.uk
September
Chiswick in Pictures, Clayton Hotel, London
November-December
Solo show Jane Newbery Gallery Dulwich Village London
From the Studio Floor, Mill Lane, Cambridge
ArtCan, at 44 Hallam St, London
Chiswick in Pictures, Clayton Hotel London
Laveli Chiswick
AAH
Chiswick in Pictures, Clayton Hotel London
AAH
Laveli
Christmas exhibition, Oil and Water Gallery London
Birds, Beasts and Butterflies, Oil and Water Gallery London
Portrait, Espacio Gallery London
AAH
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Oil and Water Gallery London
artFix inaugural show, London
AAH
National Open Art Competition, Courtauld Gallery
Touring to Minerva Festival Theatre, Chichester
Making Seen, Espacio Gallery, London
AAH
