
Jill Hobson
Toronto
Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 138
I am a Toronto-based visual artist interested in genuine, supportive relationships and the goodwill that holds people together. My exploratory painting practice is a way to search for meaning in my relationship to self, others, and our precious planet. Booth 138
I tell a new kind of story by painting an imaginary, inclusive, and hopeful world. I reinvent the figure in diverse ways, varying their degree of abstraction, diminishing barriers between them and equalizing them to their essential humanity. Paintings raise questions and invite viewer completion. I paint in layers that are abstracted and intuitive. I experiment by joining together source material. I use symbolic, expressive colour and connecting processes like paste, blend, merge and share.
Raised in New Zealand, I graduated with Honours in Painting from Auckland University. I am grateful to exhibit, paint commissions, jury shows and take residencies. I have paintings in many international private, public and corporate collections.
Painting

01 The Land and Each Other
- 2021
- 91.44 x 91.44 x 3.81 cm
- $1,900

02 Seeing Us Through
- 2022
- 101.6 x 101.6 x 5.3 cm
- $2,450

03 Passages Pentaptych Panel I
- 2021
- 30.48 x 30.48 x 3.81 cm
- $480

(sold!) 04 Beach Party
- 2022
- 30.48 x 30.48 x 2.54 cm
- $480

05 Stepping Into Joy II
- 2022
- 101.6 x 101.6 x 5.3 cm
- $2,450

06 Passages Pentaptych Panel III
- 2021
- 30.48 x 30.48 x 3.81 cm
- $480

(sold!) 07 The Stage Of Life
- 2021
- 81.28 x 35.56 x 3.81 cm

(sold!) 08 Seeing Me Through
- 2021
- 30.48 x 30.48 x 3.81 cm

09 Passages Pentaptych Panel V
- 2021
- 30.48 x 30.48 x 3.81 cm
- $480

10 Colour Evolution
- 2022
- 91.44 x 91.44 x 3.81 cm
- $1,900