Jill Schultz McGannon

Jill Schultz McGannon earned her BFA and MFA in Drawing and Painting at the University of Georgia, and later attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work can been seen at Mason Murer Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, Gwenda Jay/ Addington in Chicago, Illinois, Studio E Gallery in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and Addison Rowe Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She also has a line of prints through Art In Motion that is sold at frame shops and through retailers all over the world.

She paints realistic landscape paintings in oils, preferring to work from life whenever possible. Ms. McGannon paints smaller landscapes plein-air, spending time in Europe as well as Georgia and the Midwestern United States. She began painting plein-air from the hilltops surrounding Cortona, Italy in 1994 when she was Artist in Residence for the University of Georgia’s painting program in Cortona. Larger works are executed back home in the studio, using the small paintings and photographs as resources. With these paintings, Ms. McGannon not only affords herself time spent in nature, but also hopes to impress upon the viewer the beauty and value of the diminishing landscape. The landscapes are painted on surfaces that the artist creates using Venetian plaster, crackle varnish, gold leaf, and pattern. These surfaces create a contemporary context for realistic imagery.