Jila Peacock

About Jila Peacock

Painter and printmaker, Jila Peacock was born in Iran and studied and practised Medicine at London University before graduating in painting from St Martin’s School of Art in 1984.  Although primarily a painter, she has always had a great interest in music and the performing arts and worked as Artistic Director for ENO’s Baylis Programme from 1989 to 1992.  Moving to Glasgow in 1990, she has been a part-time lecturer in the Glasgow School of Art and a member of the Glasgow Print Studio while continuing to exhibit regularly in Scotland and London.  Her collaboration with composer Sally Beamish resulted in a multi-media project The Seafarer Piano trio, first performed at the Alderton Arts festival in 2001.

The Rose Chalice [1996]
Oil on board, 56 x 81 cms
Donated by the artist 1998

Ten Poems by Hafex [2004]
Handmade book, edition of 50
Donated by the artist 2004

Jila Peacock's Ten Poems from Hafez exhibition at New Hall was the culmination of an Arts and Humanities Research Board award for which she worked on a series of Persian calligraphic shapes composed of poems by the 14th Century mystic poet, Hafez of Shiraz, much of it containing animal symbolism. Working at the Glasgow Print Studio, she made pearlescent colour silk-screens of each image on Japanese Tenjin paper, which alongside new English translations on Somerset soft white paper, have been meticulously bound into 50 copies as a book.