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My original website which ends with co.uk & now completely defunct has illegally been hijacked by a company / source for their own purposes! This old site has zero authorisation by me Jill Swarbrick-Banks & its content should not in any way be considered as authentic as representing me and my ouevre.  The original site was built in the Naughties by myself and the wonderful Steve Fairhead of FIVETREES web services. Steve has managed to supply me with my original data and consequentially I have created an ARCHIVE here on this, my one and only official website. The work I have selected for the archive was created when I resided in The Netherlands ( 1988 - 1998). I find it quite interesting to see how my work has developed over the years and astonished to note that the lyrical element was there at that time too!  The painting below is an oil on canvas. Approx: 40 x 40 cm . Now in a private collection in Groningen, The Netherlands. The title Cân Serch is Welsh for 'song of love'. I was developing work based on Graham Sutherland's abstracted landscapes of Wales and used silver leaf for the first time. I expect that it has tarnished to black now! I should have used gold leaf but being an impoverished Art Student at the time...