Jill is a mixed-media artist who makes books, paintings and other story-telling structures. After graduating 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.

You can see her work in Somerset Studio, Letter Arts Review and Cloth, Paper Scissors, Art Journaling magazine, Drawing Lab (by Carla Sonheim), Interactive Art Workshop (Kim Rae Nugent), Journal It! (Jenny Doh), The Complete Decorated Journal (Gwen Diehn), 1000 Artists' Books (Peter and Donna Thomas) and various other publications. She has written two books: Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking and Map Art Lab.

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 five universities, Art & Soul, Artfest, Valley Ridge, Art Unraveled and various other institutions around the globe.