Text/Book Art
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink, acrylic and collage on folded paper book
Adventures of a Mother and Child
2024
ink, acrylic and collage on folded paper book
8 x 132" - 10 feet long unfolded
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art gouache and watercolor
Page from handmade book
2018
gouache and watercolor
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink, acrylic, glitter, gesso, pastel, gold leaf frame, mounted on journal pages, mounted on wood
Soul Within Your Dust (Notes on Romanticism)
2015
ink, acrylic, glitter, gesso, pastel, gold leaf frame, mounted on journal pages, mounted on wood
57 x 39"

c/o Brown's Fine Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink, pastel pencil, glitter, gesso, acrylic on journal/sketchbook pages and translucent paper, gold leaf frame with pastel and acrylic drawing; mounted on wood.
Detail, Soul Within Your Dust (Notes on Romanticism)
2015
ink, pastel pencil, glitter, gesso, acrylic on journal/sketchbook pages and translucent paper, gold leaf frame with pastel and acrylic drawing; mounted on wood.
57 x 39"

c/o Brown's Fine Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink, acrylic, glitter, pastel, translucent paper, gold leaf frame, on paper mounted on wood
Detail, Soul Within Your Dust (Notes on Romanticism)
2015
ink, acrylic, glitter, pastel, translucent paper, gold leaf frame, on paper mounted on wood
57 x 39"

c/o Brown's Fine Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink, acrylic, gold leaf on folded paper
Detail, Transcendenza
2015
ink, acrylic, gold leaf on folded paper
ten feet wide

Private collection, Jackson, Mississippi
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art acrylic and ink on translucent paper and book pages
Where All That Was Is
2015
acrylic and ink on translucent paper and book pages
framed (white wood) 24 x 24"

This piece was stolen after the Nabi Museum show. Location unknown.
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art acrylic and ink on book pages
Now That You're Both Gone
2015
acrylic and ink on book pages
framed (white wood) 26 x 24"

Six drawings framed as one piece; book pages from The Hands of Children, by Julius Speyer and F.W.W> Simon, 1944
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink and gouache on book page
You Wind and Moon (detail, Now That You're Both Gone)
2015
ink and gouache on book page
8.5 x 5 3/8"

One of six drawings framed as one piece; book page from The Hands of Children, by Julius Speyer and F.W.W. Simon, 1944
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art acrylic, ink and collage on translucent layered papers
The Storm Will Wash It Away
2013
acrylic, ink and collage on translucent layered papers
framed 20 x 17"

c/o Brown's Fine Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink, charcoal, gesso, acrylic on layered translucent papers
Reluctant Seer #2
2013
ink, charcoal, gesso, acrylic on layered translucent papers
20 x 17"

Upper background color paper/drawing contributed by the artist Terri Lindbloom

c/o Brown's Fine Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink, graphite and gouache on book page
Shadows on the Bedroom Wall
2013
ink, graphite and gouache on book page
8.5 x 5 3/8"

Collection, Hungarian Arts Council, Dallas
Book page from The Hands of Children, by Julius Speyer and F.W.W. Simon, 1944
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink, charcoal, graphite on translucent paper and book pages
Reluctant Seer
2013
ink, charcoal, graphite on translucent paper and book pages
framed (white wood) 24 x 26"

Five drawings framed as one piece; book pages from The Hands of Children, by Julius Speyer and F.W.W. Simon, 1944
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink on book pages
My Senses Unsensed
2012
ink on book pages
framed (white wood) 24 x 24"

Six drawings framed as one piece; book pages from The Hands of Children, by Julius Speyer and F.W.W. Simon, 1944
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink on book page
Parts of the Whole (detail, My End is My Beginning)
2012
ink on book page
8.5 x 5 3/8"

One of six drawings framed as one piece; book page from The Hands of Children, by Julius Speyer and F.W.W. Simon, 1944
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink on book page
Take the Moon with You (detail, My End is My Beginning)
2012
ink on book page
8.5 x 5 3/8"

One of six drawings framed as one piece; book page from The Hands of Children, by Julius Speyer and F.W.W. Simon, 1944
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink on book page
I Will Make of My Sadness a Music (after Jorge Luis Borges); detail, My End is My Beginning
2012
ink on book page
8.5 x 5 3/8"

One of six drawings framed as one piece; book page from The Hands of Children, by Julius Speyer and F.W.W.Simon, 1944
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink on book page
All I Have (detail, My Senses Unsensed)
2012
ink on book page
8.5 x 5 3/4"

One of six drawings framed as one piece; book page from The Hands of Children, by Julius Speyer and F.W.W. Simon, 1944
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink, acrylic and gesso on journal pages, mounted on wood
Poison into Medicine
2012
ink, acrylic and gesso on journal pages, mounted on wood
64 x 46"

c/o Brown's Fine Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art acrylic, gouache, ink on journal page and newspaper clippings
Healing Tree
2011
acrylic, gouache, ink on journal page and newspaper clippings
12 x 9"

Private collection, Jackson, Mississippi
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink and acrylic with postage stamp, on hospital record, mounted on canvas
Released
2011
ink and acrylic with postage stamp, on hospital record, mounted on canvas
5 x 7"

Permanent collection, Davis Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink on paper (index cards) mounted on wood
Mostly Bad Ideas
2010
ink on paper (index cards) mounted on wood
42 x 36"

Index cards 1980-2010 with ideas/sketches for paintings never executed.

c/o Brown's Fine Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art ink and gouache on folded paper
Il Bel Far Niente (The Beauty of Doing Nothing)
2010
ink and gouache on folded paper
eleven feet wide

Private collection, Jackson, Mississippi
Jill Slaymaker Text/Book Art India ink on folded paper
Detail, Il Bel Far Niente (The Beauty of Doing Nothing)
2010
India ink on folded paper
eleven feet long

Private collection, Jackson, Mississippi