Inspired by her love of nature and her affinity for vibrant color, Jill Worm’s simplified landscape forms capture the mood of the day and a sense of place.Worm begins painting in oil outdoors in order to capture her initial impressions before returning to the studio and working in a larger scale on canvas. She may depart from her original references, working in more intense color, and ranges in her application from glazing to scumbling and layering with the palette knife. Ideas emerge in the studio, and the painting process often takes its own direction, resulting in an abstracted swaths of color even slightly cubist-style compositions.Jill Worm grew up in Wisconsin, and studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Evanston Art Center, and the International School of Drawing and Painting in Italy. She began a careen in fashion, and has carried her experience and the components of color, design and composition into her paintings.