Jill Christian

Painting has been her medium of choice since her undergraduate studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She work intuitively and gesturally, often beginning a composition with a loose figure or still life, using this as a structure for the abstract forms and brushstrokes that emerge as she paint.

A few years ago, she began to work with monotypes. she first experienced monotyping in a printmaking survey course during study-abroad program in France and Belgium. Then, in March 2005, she attended a workshop at the studio of Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki, two artists who live and work in Corrales, New Mexico. She immediately responded to the spontaneity and expressiveness of this type of printmaking -- shewas hooked. shecreated a series of prints based on the sensations of flight, waking, water, and love.