Lady Jill was born in 1944 in Los Angeles, California. From an early age she was influenced by her mother, also an artist and the art community of Laguna Beach. She took every art course throughout her early schooling years, and then went on to major in art at several southern California colleges. During these years she was awarded a scholarship to the Laguna Art School. 

As she grew up, Jill was always drawn to the peacefulness of being in nature. Moving away from southern California in 1971 allowed her to explore the Sierra Nevada mountains that she grew to love. In 1983 Lady Jill moved from California to the eastern Sierra, to live in Nevada close to the great, rugged mountains.

In 1980 she began to teach watercolor both to private students and during plain air watercolor workshops throughout the eastern Sierra. In 1993 she had her first class at Blackcraig Castle in Scotland and has been teaching there once or twice a summer since. Annually she teaches in Virginia City, Nevada and Rock Creek and Hope Valley, California. Occasionally she offers classes at her studio.

Lady Jill's painting philosophy is based on her love of nature - being there as one, allowing the world to go by - hence she almost never puts people in her paintings, as she wishes the viewer to be the only one there. So many of Lady Jill's paintings have found themselves on city home walls. "I feel blessed with the knowledge that so many have my life's work to enjoy and pass on to their loved ones".

Lady Jill Accomplishments - Exhibitions and Shows:

1981-86 Death Valley Invitational Art Show 
1985 to present Annual Mammoth Lakes Labor Day Art Show, CA 
1987 Watercolor West Annual Juried Show- All transparent watercolor show 
1988-90 Great Basin National Park: An Artists View: Impressions from the Soul, Toured Nevada for one and a half years 
1992-94 Classic American Western Art Show- Los Angeles, CA 
1991-93 At Timberline: Yosemite and the High Sierra At the Visitors Center Yosemite National Park 
1993-95 Ellensburg Washington Invitational Western Art Show 
1995 Quick Draw Artist 
1980 to Present: Numerous other shows throughout Arizona (at Grand Canyon National Park ), California, Nevada, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming including many benefit one-woman shows

Awards:

1987 Awarded the 1st Colbus Memorial Award in Kernville,CA; voted on by her peer group of artists 
1990 included in top 200 of "Art in the Parks" competition, of a field of 2400 artists 
Numerous first places awards in juried shows, including 10 "Best of Shows"! 

Teaching Experience:

1980 to Present Private and group classes, studio and plein air, in numerous locations throughout California and  Nevada 
1984-1992 Watercolor and Drawing at Yosemite Art Activity Center, Yosemite National Park 
1987 Basic Watercolor- Western Nevada Community College, Yerington, Nevada 
1994 to present Annual week-long classes at Blackcraig Castle, Scotland 
1999 Group class in Bonar Bridge, Scotland