Jill Midthune is an abstract painter based in coastal Delaware. Her formal art training includes college-level art courses, a year of abstract painting at the Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick, Maryland, and several years of private study with Baltimore artist Katie Pumphrey, focusing on acrylic painting techniques. A lifelong student of art, Jill has traveled widely, visiting museums and galleries around the world, experiences that have deeply shaped her artistic sensibility.
Early influenced by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, she later found lasting inspiration in the Abstract Expressionists—particularly Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Hans Hofmann, and Joan Mitchell. Since retiring from her career as a psychiatrist in 2021, Jill has devoted herself fully to developing her own expressive visual language.
Her work explores the balance between structure and spontaneity, using bold color fields, gestural mark-making, and layered textures to evoke emotion and movement. She often works intuitively, building her compositions through an evolving dialogue between form, color, and mood. The resulting paintings invite reflection—suggesting landscape, energy, or emotion without prescribing narrative.
Jill is an active member of the Rehoboth Art League and the Milton Arts Guild in Delaware.