Jill Ramsfield
Jill Ramsfield is a watercolor artist who began exploring the medium in Gay Jefferson’s classes at Linekona. She uses a “beginner’s mind” to discover the painting, working with an open palette and fresh paint each day. She works to capture the light inside a subject, the hidden color and contour, the living conversation moving out of a landscape or still life, the noisy quietude of distant space. To her, these paradoxes move so easily through watercolor, which is eager to dance at the slightest urging. To discover and capture the essence of an image, she usually paints quickly, loosely, freely, boldly, and silently.
Jill earned her B.A. from Wellesley College, and a B.M. and J.D. from the University of Wisconsin. This is Jill's third career; she was first a choral conductor and then a law professor. Her watercolor painting is central to her lifelong enjoyment of the arts. She lived in Honolulu for fourteen years and now resides in Madison, Wisconsin.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few." Shunyu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind