About the Artist:

Jill’s work takes many different forms. Recent projects include a billboard, a series of commissioned landscapes in oil, a large mural for a child’s bedroom, a colorful fauxpainted formal interior, website designs for local businesses and organizations, and a poster illustration for a com unity concert series.

Jill’s drawings, paintings in watercolor and oil, and paper sculptures reflect her interest in combining subjects from nature with formal artistic themes, including studies of color, line, and movement. Her most recent work explores the idea of three dimensional drawing

Artist’s Statement:
When I was young, my mother proclaimed me a “Jack of all Trades” (maybe a Jill-of-All-Trades would be more accurate), and her prophecy has been fulfilled (as mothers’ prophecies often are). Although I have a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Painting and Printmaking, my artmaking experience has been much broader, including painting, tee-shirt printing, murals, decorative painting, set design, costuming, book and poster illustration, graphic design, teaching art to preschoolers, homeschooler, and grade schoolers, a brief stint as an art welder, and the production of floats. So it is not surprising that my work crosses categorical boundaries — almost all of it can be considered “mixed media.” I am especially interested in the idea of three-dimensional drawing; many of my more recent works might be classified as paper sculptures, though they include drawing, watercolor, and paper bleaching. The recent acquisition of a printing press is likely to make the boundaries between media messier still as the experiment goes on.