Jill is a mixed-media artist, teacher, and mom in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains who makes lots of books, paintings and other story-telling structures. After graduating from San Diego State University with a degree in Design, she spent a year of graduate studies in Italy, where she learned to see a bigger picture of both art and the world in general. She focuses her work on text, color and social issues, and it often involves maps, symbols, houses, housewives, and the mystique of charisma, and you can see it in Somerset Studio, Letter Arts Review, Interactive Art Workshop: Set Your Mixed Media in Motion, Cloth, Paper Scissors and Art Journaling magazine.
Her handmade books are in the permanent collections of the Newberry Library in Chicago and the Denver Public Library. Her paintings and artists’ books have been shown in national invitational and juried shows and can be found in public and private collections across the country. She has taught at three universities in Colorado and various other institutions nationally and feels that art is necessary and accessible to everyone.