These twenty Art Cards, representative of my Neighbourhood, Urban Garden and recent Urban Bicycle and Garden paintings, have been beautifully reproduced and curated into four different sets of art cards. These packages of cards are available for purchase through the Card Shop, or to use as a group fundraising tool.
As an artist, my focus in this project has been to work with photographers and designers to translate these large-scale paintings into a smaller format, making high quality reproductions of my work that can be collected and gifted as cards.
As a parent of three arts-involved children and as a community organizer, I know the challenges of raising funds for non-profit organizations and community programs. I believe these paintings are a wonderful expression of community connectivity, that can be used for nurturing and supporting organizations in successful and meaningful fundraising campaigns.
Learn more about fundraising using my art cards.
“Jill Thomson’s paintings are views of urban environments and interiors of both public and private spaces such as cafes, libraries, brownstones and homes and as the paintings’ surfaces increase in size so the images absorb more houses, their street – the entire neighbourhood. The paintings have become deconstructed views of a house in a setting – its content and its inhabitants simultaneously revealed through multiple planes on a single surface.
A western viewer, particularly an urban person, recognizes the architectural vernacular of the old, Chicago-style neighbourhoods, their bungalows and four-squares – their brick facades – the same architecture Jill brings up to the surface to reveal both the structure and its interior. This shared visual language between artist and audience heightens the metaphoric and narrative possibilities of these works and reflects back to the viewer her own relationship to place and time.”
Heather Hamel, Scott Gallery, Edmonton
Neighbourhoods
Urban Gardens 2
Urban Gardens 1
