Huia to Awhitu

Jill Perrott's professional journey as an artist started in the early nineties when her three children had flapped their wings and mostly flown the nest. Having studied art at Elam in the sixties, Jill re-energized her artistic abilities at Art Station workshops and Elam Summer schools and began exhibiting locally with her first “real” show at Titirangi's Lopdell House Community gallery in 1997. At this stage her paintings concentrated on mainly Auckland's West coast beaches where the Perrotts spent a lot of leisure time tramping the coastline and staying at their Piha bach. Jill has always been pre-occupied with the unique character of the west coast with it's rugged bluffs, blackish bush and white light.