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Artist's BIO

I am a painter, a mother, a creative facilitator and a wild woman. My watercolor and gouache paintings celebrate the radiance and power of the feminine, centering women's pleasure and desire — not as taboo, but as a sacred source of strength, healing, and connection to the divine.

Through intimate figurative work and atmospheric landscapes, I paint the emotional terrain of our human experience: desire, expansion, transformation.

 

Collectors often describe my work as deeply personal: mirrors of who they are becoming and reminders of what they’ve survived, reclaimed, or finally allowed themselves to feel. Many live with my paintings as one would live with an altar. A daily return to yourself. 

In addition to my original works, I create deeply collaborative commissions that depict personal evolution in a painted prayer. My practice has grown from my own journey of moving through shadow, releasing limiting beliefs, and discovering the seemingly endless depth of my own creative energy.

 

Pleasure is not indulgence — it is medicine. 

I live and work in Upstate New York, where I paint, lead workshops and parties, and raise my kids with my husband in a beautiful forest garden.

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Education & CV

Education

2002-2006

University of North Texas

BFA in Visual Art Studies- a perfect mix of studio art classes in watercolor, figure painting and sculpture, along with education courses, social development and cognitive studies. I graduated with a teaching certification to teach Art - Pk-12 and a thirst for painting. 

2009-2011

Montessori Northwest & Loyola University 

M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education, Association Montessori Internationale teaching credentials for Preschool and Kindergarten. Wrote my thesis on Social-Emotional Development in early years as a precursor for later academic achievement and measured happiness. 

2025

Positive Discipline Association 

Teaching Parenting credentials through PDA, facilitating parent education courses and training through the lens of Positive Discipline to empower parents toward a right relationship with their kids. 

CV

2026 

Citiot, Catskill NY 

Group show with Room Collaborative, a local life drawing group. Showed Pool and Echo from my series Soul Maps

2019

Solstice, Hood River NY

Solo show of my Animal Medicine paintings, displayed 16 original paintings, framed and hung by me while seven months pregnant. 

2014 - 2018

Solo booths at premium art markets in and around Portland, OR. Showed original paintings and prints along with coloring pages and an interactive coloring zone. Made fan art for Bernie Sanders and social justice movements.  

Art Markets 

2013

Created interactive artwork for the International Montessori Congress, held in Portland OR. Sold prints at a vendor booth and shared love and artwork with guides from around the world. 

International Montessori Congress 

Get in Touch

503-890-7527

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c 2026, JILLIAN MAEVE, artist. Catskill, NY, USA

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