‘Familiar Bones’ by Jill West

Familiar Bones presents the first posthumous exhibition of London painter Jill West. Her series of paintings explore the congruence of form, abstract narrative and lived experience. Following a life of alcohol recovery and motherhood, Wests’ work concerns the examination of current issues of powerlessness, powerlessness of the individual and groups of individuals that exists within society. Her work physically confronts the viewer with the reality of what goes on behind closed doors, both public doors and private, bringing interior to exterior.

Please join us for the Private View on Friday the 18th July 7-9pm

Jill West (1943 - 2022) originally from The Wirral (Liverpool), moved to London at the age of seventeen to pursue a degree in Fine Art and raise a family of seven.

“My work lies in the tradition of narrative expressive-realist. The works of Simon English, Sarah Lucas, and more recently, Dorothea Tanning and Ken Kiff, inspire me to greater freedom in both the application of paint and in the subject matter - the subconscious, whilst continuing to confront current issues of powerless - the abused, the locked away, the displaced, the marginalised.” -

West, December 2005.