JILL HOY

NARRATIVES OF FORM & COLOR

Jill Hoy’s work emphasizes strong composition, rhythm, gesture, pattern, energy, power of place, and soul. Each painting tells a story and reflects the particular significance of its chosen subject. Her work comprises two main genres—figurative work created in her studio and derived from her imagination, and landscapes, painted en plein air by direct observation and inspired by the effects of natural light, color, and pattern.

Hoy earned a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since 1986, she has run the Jill Hoy Gallery in Stonington, Maine. She also exhibits with the Portland Art Gallery and has shown at the Gallery at South West Harbor, Schomburg Gallery in Santa Monica, O’Mell Gallery, London, and Chase Gallery in Boston, among others. Her paintings are held in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art, Harvard Business School, Boston Public Library, Fidelity, John Hancock, and the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program, among many others. Her work is featured in publications by Carl Little and Edgar Allen Beem on Maine art, and she has been profiled in Maine Home and Design, Yankee Magazine, and Down East alongside her late husband, painter Jon Imber. The 2014 documentary Jon Imber’s Left Hand, part of the Maine Masters series, offers an intimate look at their life and art. Hoy divides her time between Deer Isle, ME, and Somerville, MA.