Paintings 

An exciting new 5-day arts festival celebrating Inland Cornwall and combining music with pots, paintings, poems, photos and food in the powerful setting of Bodmin Moor. https://lavethan.co.uk/music-on-the-moor.

I'll be there with my moorland paintings on Thursday 10th July. See details here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/musiconthemoor


Blog: landscapes, influences & inspiration

Memories, thoughts, ideas and quotes; observations of nature, walks, concerns about environment, climate crisis and inequality - all those things that may make their way into my work.

Sounds of Palestine

by Jill Goodman • 15 July 2025
This painting sold last week at the Music on the Moor event. I donate 10% of all my sales to 'Sounds of Palestine'. This is a community music project using music education as a medium to achieve long term social change for the children and families involved. The program is free of charge for the children. www.soundsofpalestine.org Below is the thank you letter I have received.

Music in the Moor

by Jill Goodman • 11 July 2025
Music - Literature - Paintings - Photography  Button Button Button Button Button Button Button Button This Music on the Moor Festival is a treat - beautiful places to visit, the moorland landscape, and superb live music.. Hopefully tis will now be an annual event.

Sou'-Sou'-West Gallery

by Jill Goodman • 25 May 2025
Here at Symondsbury Estate - near Bridgeport and not far from Lyme Regis - we have our 21 Group show at the Sou'-Sou'-West Gallery. There's also a cafe, shops and plants - it's a lovely place to visit. The exhibition continues until 15th June.
Blog

Of Climate & Ecological Emergency

"We are intimately interconnected with nature, whether we like it or not. 

If we don’t take care of nature, we can’t take care of ourselves."

Inger Anderson, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme www.unenvironment.org

"If current trends continue, humanity will dramatically alter virtually all of Earth's remaining natural ecosystems within a few decades." 

Gretchen Daily, Bing Professor of Environmental Science at Stanford University, where she also serves as Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute; Director of the Center for Conservation Biology; and co-founder and faculty director of the Natural Capital Project. Exeter University

Quotes

"Underlying all of these problems of introducing contamination into our world is the question of moral responsibility - responsibility not only to our own generation but to those of the future." 

Rachel Carson, writer, ecologist (1907-1964) https://rachelcarson.org/Default.aspx