Local Featured Artist

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Jill Parker

Bio Jill Parker is a contemporary artist based in Teton Valley, Idaho, known for her portraiture of local architecture and exploration of themes such as the supernatural, trauma, and womanhood. With a background in social work, and trauma-informed care for children, Parker’s work draws inspiration from familiar neighborhoods and family homes and often contains a hidden spectral element.

Her work has spanned across professional projects, such as branding for Mountain Man Coffee in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and murals painted in various residential treatment centers and domestic violence shelters across the US. Locally, Parker has been featured in Foxtrot Fine Art’s Wall Paper Show in 2023, as well as in many restaurants and cafes.

Through her art, Parker seeks to remind the viewer of all that lies beneath the surface of human experience: the bones of our family homes, the hauntings that persist, and the ghosts that pursue us all.

Artist Statement:

This collection of work is part of my ongoing series entitled Home, As A Haunting. I drew inspiration from a variety of psychological modalities I concentrated on during my career as a social worker, particularly Jungian psychoanalysis and Internal Family Systems theory. These theories teach us to examine trauma not as an isolated event, but oftentimes as a deeply encrypted intergenerational wound, the haunting entity that returns to our family system again and again, refusing to be laid to rest. I have chosen for this collection to take this idea, that the family is a haunted structure, even further and argue that the home itself, any home we enter over the course of our lives, becomes haunted by the ghosts we carry. The home is where we are supposed to be most safe, and most comfortable, but unfortunately for many, our childhood homes contained dangers we couldn’t escape. As adults, we may find ourselves continually pursued by those things we thought we “got over” years ago. The process of healing teaches us that we must bury our dead over and over again, and have faith that each time it will get a little easier, and we find ourselves stronger than the last.