Jill McGannon
SUWANEE, GA
Jill McGannon completed her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Georgia in 1985 and earned her MFA in 1988, also from UGA, and has made a living as an artist since then. She was a student on the UGA Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy in 1982, and used her photos of Italy to paint murals in Italian restaurants in Chicago for the 8 years she lived in Chicago. She also showed her figurative paintings at Addington Gallery. Jill began painting plein air in 1994 when she returned to Cortona as Artist in Residence for the UGA program, and has continued to paint plein air, primarily in Italy, the GA and SC coast, and the GA and NC mountains. Jill has been painting the marsh in the Hilton Head Island, SC area since the early 80s, when her family bought a condo there, and has been primarily doing paintings of the marsh and the low country since 2010. The smaller plein air works are often used as references to paint larger paintings in the studio.
Recent Events/Honors/Awards
Plein air Awards
2021
First Place, Georgia Color Quick Paint, St. Simons Island, GA
2020
Third Place in the Community Quick Paint at Olmsted Plein Air, Atlanta, GA
Runner up in the Quick Paint at Gilmer Arts' Plein Air- Art in the Mountains, Ellijay, GA
2019
First Place in the Quick Paint at Gilmer Arts' Plein Air- Art in the Mountains, Ellijay, GA
Second Place at Paint Duluth 4, in Duluth, GA
Second Place at the Olmsted PaintQuick Community Award, Atlanta, GA
Show Awards
2021 Landscape Finalist in Art Renewal Center Salon
2020 First place winner of "Best Water" category in the Dec/ Jan 202 Plein Air Salon Art Competition for Plein Air Magazine
2019 Art Muse-One of 5 of the Emerging Artist Finalists and selected by the owner of Jack Meier Gallery as the September Gallery Representation Finalist.
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