"In my professional life as a Speech-Language Pathologist in rehabilitation facilities I worked with people with impairments in communication and cognition. Brains and the uniqueness of individual abilities were fascinating to me.

Fast forward to today when painting is my work and I am still fascinated with the beauty and the mystery of those tiny brain cells, all that they can do and the devastation their loss can produce. Looking at brain cell images on the internet their physical beauty is striking.  What isn’t apparent is their immense power. This series is the result of a lifetime of reflecting on that, an attempt to express the awe I feel at the complexity of these tiny cells.

What I have produced are not mirror images of brain cells.  That got left somewhere behind and these are the flashes of exploration and imagination that happen when I sit with paint and paper and the time to experiment. My hope is that these watercolors with their scribbling of gouache and Tombow and Micron pens will intrigue you and make you puzzle over the complexity and the mystery of our creative minds."

Jill Kneeter