Essex Water Color Club

Jill Vondervor-Frank

Jill Vondervor-Frank

Biography

 

Jill retired from the business world and rediscovered a joy and passion taking a watercolor course at the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts.  During her life she has consistently taken art classes in the evenings at the New York School of Visual Arts, du Cret School of Arts, South Orange-Maplewood Adult Night School, School of Advertising Art and private lessons studying oil painting, charcoal portraits, sculpture, pastels, acrylics, pen and ink, studied Chinese Brush Painting with Shirley Poo Wills and painted in Sicily with Valerie Larko. Studied watercolor  with  W. Carl Burger, Angelito David and Elizabeth Horowitz and on location with Ed Havas.

 

She designed pen & ink drawings of the common buildings for the Lake Wallkill Community in Sussex County, New Jersey as a fund raiser and has done over 60 commissions of interesting homes in that medium and watercolor.  She keeps a camera in the car to capture just that something in a scene that makes her want to paint it.

 

Jill is an exhibiting member and past president of the Essex Watercolor Club where she is the treasurer, member of the North East Watercolor Society, Drew Art Association  and a signature member of the Garden State Watercolor Society.

 

She has displayed her works at various outdoor shows in Westfield, Livingston, Short Hills-Millburn, Springfield, New Providence and Madison.  Jill has exhibited at Children’s Specialized Hospital in Mountainside, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, the Morris County Library, Overlook Hospital in Summit, Bernardsville Library, Walsh Library at Seton Hall University, Sussex County Arts & Heritage Council, Center Gallery at Old Church , Café Metro in Denville, Crane’s Mill Retirement Community in West Caldwell, the Papermill Playhouse and the Morris Community Theatre. Jill resides in Maplewood , New Jersey. 

 

Jill Vondervor-Frank

Phone 973-699-6174 E-mail

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