PERSONAL BIO:
Jillian was born in Colorado Springs in 1982. From the time she was a little girl, she has always had a passion for creating art. She began her professional art career after graduating college in 2004. She received a Fine Arts degree with a Minor in Business from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a painter that specializes in large oil paintings, many of them commissions.
She has been in shows throughout Colorado and England. She has completed many commissions throughout her career. Her most accomplished commissions were for The Navigators, a Christian organization based in Colorado Springs. She painted two large paintings of Glen Eyrie Castle, and two portraits of their founders. The castle paintings are now displayed in their corporate office. She has also had the opportunity to travel to many countries which has greatly enriched her life as well as her art.
Jillian has had studio space in Manitou Springs, Denver, and Bury St Edmunds, England. Once her twin boys and little girl arrived, painting in her studio at home made more sense. She adores her family and loves balancing her artistic life with motherhood.
EDUCATION:
2000-2004 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, Colorado
Fine Arts Major with Business Minor
Spring 2003 Students Of International Training Prague, Czech Republic
Arts and Social Change Seminar
SHOWS:
2017 Bury St Edmunds Exhibition The Market Cross Gallery, United Kingdom
2016 70th Annual Exhibition Edmund Gallery, United Kingdom
2015 69th Annual Exhibition Edmund Galley, Bury St Edmunds, UK
2014 Bury St Edmund Art Society 68th Annual Exhibition Edmund Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, England
2007 Fall Art Festival, Glenwood Springs Art Guild Glenwood Springs, Colorado
2007 Solo Show representing 20 paintings BAC, Manitou Springs, Colorado
2005 Impressions:Metaphor/Perception/Process BAC, Manitou Springs. Colorado
2004 Trattoria Girasole Ristorante Italiano Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado
AWARDS:
2014 "Highly Commended" award for the oil painting Rapeseed Field
2007 "Third Place" award for the oil painting Blue Tree
TRAVEL EXPERIENCE:
1996 Calcutta, India; Katmandu, Nepal; Bangkok, Thailand; and Dhaka, Bangladesh
2002 Esperanza, Dominican Republic
2003 Prague, Czech Republic; Budapest, Hungary; Vienna, Austria
2004 Barcelona, Spain
2006 Playa del Carmen, Mexico
2007 Negril, Jamaica
2014 Paris, Alpe de Huez, France
2014 London, York, Birmingham, Chester, Nottingham, Dover, England
2014 Bruges, Belguim
2014 Edinburgh, Scotland
2014 Rome, Siena, Florence, Pisa, Cinque Terre, Italy
2015 Germany, Switzerland, Wales
2016 Epernay, France, Cervinia, Italy, Venice, Barcelona, Lake District, UK
2017 Prague, Czech Republic, Wales, Ireland, Cornwall, England, Greece
2023 Panama City, Panama