Gallery: Jill Grimes (CFA’03)
Daisy, 2025, oil on panel, 52” x 32”
Gallery: Jill Grimes (CFA’03)
Jill Grimes (CFA’03), a College of Fine Arts senior lecturer in art, painting, recently concluded the show Spring at the Alpha Gallery in Boston, in which Daisy was the largest work. She’d spent many sessions in her studio painting individual flowers on vivid backgrounds, experimenting with the possibilities of color, inspired by Mondrian’s watercolors.
With the real flowers in front of her, she wrote in her artist statement, “I can smell them and see their forms change as they inevitably wilt during a day’s work…. I wanted to call the show Spring to think about light and life in a time of uncertainty and anxious anticipation. A reminder of the bigger picture, the paintings come from the tradition of memento mori: the impermanence of things, beautiful and otherwise.”
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