Oil on canvas, oil on linen, acrylics, mixed media, gouache, watercolour, handmade paper pulp, plein air, hand-painted tile, wall murals, hand-painted tile murals for kitchens, baths, and pools, hand-painted furniture. Classically trained. Entirely her own.
I cannot yet build Ekotecture everywhere — so I paint it. Each canvas is a proof of concept: that beauty and sustainability are the same thing, that paradise on Earth is not a wish but a design specification.
All surfaces are fair game.
The fragility of a flower is a window into the realm of spirit, which has attracted Jill as a subject for her paintings. Her exquisite renditions of orchids are a means of expressing her own inner flowering, and the awakening of her own spirit. Flowing, harmonious, luxurious — Jill’s orchid paintings express her belief that paradise on earth is possible.
Classically trained in Europe, Jill studied the human figure, creating oils and works on paper. She boldly executed large paintings on paper depicting the movement of dancers at The Boston Ballet, and exhibited these paintings at the Boston Symphony.
Jill’s spiritual paintings — the cosmic ocean, the breath of God, the long-time sun, the chakras — sit at the meeting point of her painting practice and a lifetime of yoga and inner inquiry.
The brand anchor and the lifelong subject. Dolphins as living creatures with intent — not decoration, never decoration. Each canvas a study in what marine intelligence has to teach humans about joy, community, and living in radical harmony with the environment.
Jill is commissioned to paint house portraits all over the world. From the Hemingway House to Osterville cottages to the Breakers in Palm Beach — the built environment rendered with the same care she gives to a face.
Jill paints furniture as readily as she paints canvas. Pillows, umbrellas, chairs, floors, sofas, sisal rugs — surfaces become canvases. Every surface is fair game!
Interior paintings — living rooms in Palm Beach, the Rome Room, dining rooms in Florida, her room at The Vajra Hotel in Kathmandu, and an interior of her family’s living room in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. Each interior is a study in light, scale, and the marks people leave on the spaces they live in.
Plein-air painting requires the artist to paint her canvas outdoors, in nature. Jill has been blessed to live in beautiful places worldwide and loves plein-air painting most of all. The contact with the natural world thrills and inspires her.
Palm Beach renderings — the gardens, the bridges, the institutions, and the small unwatched corners of the place she calls home.
Jill’s first journey to Nepal and India in 1988 was so inspiring that she rose at four in the morning to capture the light, painting daily. Biki Oberoi, to whom she was introduced in New Delhi, invited her back to India to exhibit her paintings — which she did in 1992 at The Oberoi, New Delhi to enthusiastic press reviews comparing her to Amrita Shergil, a beloved Indian female artist of the mid-century.
Jill’s journey to Europe — the Camino de Santiago, Castrojeriz, Obanos, Kilkenny, Paris — rendered in watercolours, gouache, pen and ink. Each step a painting, each painting a step.
The pilgrim’s route: Rome, Florence, Venice, Umbria, Paris, Portugal, Ireland, Norway, Camino de Santiago — and the stops along the way. Jill paints what she sees in her own inimitable way, on the way.
Murals on walls, with hand-painted tiles, or directly — enhancing home, office, commercial, garden, interior, and exterior spaces.
Lucid, flowing, two-dimensional but sculptural in their rich textures — Jill’s handmade paper paintings are inspired by cosmic gardens and visions of angels. Painted entirely with paper pulp at the Rugg Road Paper Making Studio. No paint in the image.
By inquiry · selected works above
Inquire about your desires and needs. Jill paints in oils, acrylics, or mixed media. Giclées start at $250–$7,500.
Inquire about an original →Editions of 50 · from $145
Each edition is hand-signed and hand-numbered. Editions are limited to fifty per painting. Printed on archival fine art paper using pigment inks rated for one hundred years. Once an edition closes, no further prints are made.
Reserve an edition →From $25 · ships worldwide
For collectors who want to live with the work without the formality. Open-edition fine art prints, framed prints, totes, and home goods printed only when ordered — no inventory, no waste, no compromise with the ocean that inspires them.
Browse on Etsy →I paint the world the way it could be — not as consolation, but as instruction. Every canvas carries a question and an answer at once: what would it look like if we lived in harmony with the planet?
The work is classical in its discipline and visionary in its intent. I rose at four in the morning in Nepal to paint the first light. I painted in Walter Hunniwell’s orchid greenhouses. I received a grant to paint at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga in 1981, and another to paint at the Oberoi New Delhi in 1992. I have refused to repeat myself for thirty-five years.
Each painting is a working document — proof that beauty and sustainability are the same thing. The Peaceable Kingdom hangs in the San Diego Children’s Hospital. Other works are in private collections in Palm Beach, in Europe, and in homes I have never visited. The paintings keep going.
Inquiries about originals, commissions, exhibitions, and editions are answered personally from the studio.
