Jill Ramsay Regan has received recent recognition for her artistic achievements in pastel, having been juried into the 2005 McCord Gallery’s “Moveable Feast” exhibit, an Ernest Hemingway inspired theme, and also showed in the 2005 “In the Studio” summer exhibit. In 2006, Jill was juried into McCord’s “Face to Face” portrait show and the “Purely Pastels” Invitational, both featuring the best of Chicago area artists, and again exhibited in the “In The Studio” summer exhibit. In the fall of 2006, Jill held her first solo exhibit at the Galleria Riverside in Columbus, Georgia, from August through November. Two of her original pastel paintings, “No One Left Behind” and “Going Nose to Nose,” were juried into the Great Lakes Pastel Society’s 2007 Members Show. Her original pastel, “Midland Hounds,” was accepted into the 2007 national touring exhibit offered through a collaboration of the Masters of Foxhounds Association and Cross Gate Gallery of Lexington, Kentucky, which showed at more than twenty cities beginning at the Centennial Ball in Manhattan in January, 2007, and traveling for one year throughout the United States and Canada, celebrating the 100^th Anniversary of the MFHA. The show was limited to pieces reflecting a foxhunting theme to honor the centennial year of the Masters of Foxhounds Association, and artists were invited to observe member clubs in their natural environment and translate their observations into their own artistic expression.

Jill is a member of the Chicago Artists’ Coalition, the Chicago Pastel Painters, and the Great Lakes Pastel Society, and serves on the Advisory Board of Directors and as Chairman of the Gallery Committee for the McCord Gallery and Cultural Center in Palos Park, Illinois. She works out of her home studio and is currently focusing on original works in pastel on sanded paper, including portraiture/figurative work, house portraits, equine/sporting art, and landscapes. She is available for commissioned work and uses only the finest archival materials.

A native of Columbus, Georgia, Jill has had a lifelong interest in creating art, and began her art education fifteen years ago after relocating to suburban Chicago in 1978, to marry and raise four daughters. She enrolled in a pastels class and was immediately drawn to the medium. Throughout the following years, she has done independent study with pastelists Liz Wall at the McCord Gallery and Cultural Center in Palos Park, Illinois, and Kathleen Newman at the Chicago Fine Arts Building in Chicago, and has attended workshops and demonstrations with other notable artists, including Margaret Dyer, William Schneider, and Marikay Peter Whitlock.