"The Woman At The Well Of Living Water" 20 x 24 in., 30 x 34 in. (framed). From askart.com: The artist was born in 1955 in Sparks Maryland.Additional Master artists that she has studied with were Scott L. Christensen and Kevin D. Macpherson.Museums that exhibited Jill M. Dodson's work:Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.Kentucky Derby Museum, Louisville, Kentucky.Early in her art career, Jill M. Dodson became internationally known for equine art. She painted horse portraits and racing scenes.Of her racing scenes, a strong focus was particularly on the morning routine in the stable areas and exercise tracks. In these paintings her strong use of lighting and backlighting was evident especially with morning light glowing through fog, steam rising from the back of what horses, foliage, horse blankets, horses manes and tails and other transparent things found in the back stretch. She also captured the sparkle of light on wet surfaces including wet race horses being bathed with reflective puddles and sparkling dew on the grass.In order to capture these various effects the artist experimented with and utilized a complex variety of painting techniques that she developed specifically to convey a convincing sense of light and atmosphere.During this time she also did many portraits of champion race horses. Some of her prominent clients included TV actor Jack Klugman, ABC Sports commentator Jim McKay and Thomas Mellon Evans owner of Derby and Preakness winner, Pleasant Colony, and Buckland Farms.She also was commissioned to do paintings for race courses including the home of the Preakness, Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland and Great Meadows Race Course, Virginia, Delaware Park Race Course. Piper Publishing commissioned her to do two oil horse portrait paintings for the large limited edition collector's item book, Notable North American Thoroughbreds. For this book she asked to paint two different thoroughbreds in the Racing Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York.Submitted by the artist, January 2018Biography from Ro GalleryJill M. Dodson , MFA, is a Plein Air Painter who cherishes and paints landscapes and animals, particularly horses. She is known for her mastery of light and atmosphere. Her influences include John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Alfred Munnings, Joseph Mallard William Turner and John Constable.Dodson holds a Master’s in Fine Art and has studied extensively at The En Plein Air School of Art in Paris, France; The Schuler School of Fine Art, Baltimore, MD , The Maryland Institute College of Art, James Madison University, VA and Towson State University, MD.She has also studied with outstanding master landscape painters, Fritz Schuler Briggs, AWS; John Brandon Sills, MA, David Good, MA, Carol Thompson, MA and Tony Couch, AWS. Jill can paint in any medium, but prefers oil painting for its directness, boldness, brilliance and expressive texture.Since 1980, her work has been exhibited and collected nationally, including having been part of many juried and museum shows. Her paintings have won many awards and have frequently been featured internationally, in books and magazines and on television. She is a member of The American Impressionist Society and The Baltimore Watercolor Society. Since 1985, she has taught art for many art centers and colleges and has been the lead instructor and director of her own private art school for 11 years.The artist grew up in a beautiful rural area in Maryland, USA. Jill has been attached to this area’s beautiful, rolling countryside, since early childhood. In 1958, her parents, who were both graduates of the Maryland Institute College of Art, found a perfect spot for their dream house on a hilltop with picture windows facing sunsets and fascinating patterns of patchy fog in the lovely Belfast Valley.Growing up in this area of lush pastures and farmland, fox hunt country and steeplechase courses, Jill fell in love with the land as a young girl, and explored it intimately while hiking, biking and horseback riding. Her art is her way to pay tribute to all who have worked so hard to preserve it’s lovely rural beauty And to stay in touch with those wonderful and memorable experiences. The artist also paints during her travels to the Chesapeake Bay and many other scenic destinations.Submitted by Sommer Gallery, Sparks, Maryland

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