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New Years Greetings 2025

A year with Art in Provence, personal updates, what is new in my family, our artwork, exciting projects for the coming year and much gratitude... May your journey in 2025 be full of purpose, intuition and love. (Veuillez trouver la version française en bas de la page...)
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Life in France, News

Spring Tour Cancelled

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jill is cancelling her spring tour. Stay tuned for further updates.
40 Years in France

First Friend in Aix

Meet the very first person Jill encountered when she arrived in Aix-en-Provence (and no, they are not sisters if you can believe it!)
Art & Inspiration, Creative Process, Nature, New Works

Meditations for Lent

Jill unfolds her recent meditations on the practice of receiving and being silent.
40 Years in France

Early Shows

Paving the path back to Atlanta from Provence: through family friends and art lovers, Jill starts showing and selling her work.
40 Years in France

Artist, Newlywed and Young Mother

After Jill's two-year hiatus from oil painting in order to focus on drawing and watercolor, she picked up her oil paints again, and started an entirely new chapter of her life as a newlywed and young mother.
40 Years in France

Introduction to 40 Years in France Series

As a way of celebrating her 40 years of living in Provence, Jill is publishing a series of blog posts in which she highlights significant and memorable moments in her journey.
Life in France, Nature, News

Happy New Year 2020

Jill sends her warmest greetings for 2020 as she enters her 40th year of living in Provence. She reflects on her artistic pilgrimmage and life journey as an American living in France. She also shares some of the highlights of the past year and mentions some of her upcoming events in 2020.
Creative Process, New Works, News

East Coast Tour – Fall 2019

Jill, Sergio and crew swept through New England and made their way down South on their most recent tour. The tour included several art shows, talks and workshops, a documentary screening preview on Jill, and a plein air art competition.
Exhibits, Nature, New Works, News, Workshops

Jill’s Summer Tour: Mont Sainte-Victoire to the Rockies

This summer Jill ventured out to the American West, in the heart of the the Rocky Mountains where she and Sergio gave art shows in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.
Creative Process, Life in France, Nature, News, Workshops

Workshops in Provence – Summer 2019

This summer May, July and September, Jill hosted artists in her 8-day oil-painting workshops. The groups journeyed throughout Provence, to Cézanne's art studio, followed in the footsteps of Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and captured local scenes on canvas (port of Cassis, market in Aix), and more!
Art & Inspiration, Life in France, Nature, New Works

Almond Blossoms

The delicate and exquisite beauty of the almond blossom bears a poetic reminder of greater truths. Jill captures a few of these thoughts as she crafts her palette and is inspired by these lovely flowers and the graces of this season.
Creative Process, New Works, News

The Buzz at l’Abeille

The "buzz" around here is that Sergio's first public art commission was recently inaugurated as part of the “Euroméditérrannée” urban renewal project in the La Joliette neighborhood of Marseille.
Life in France, Nature

Happy New Year 2019

As the New Year begins, I wish you all a year of renewal and time to be silent, time to go outside and to walk to restore your spirit. The question is not “How can I be happy?” but rather “How can I be free?”
Creative Process

Leo Marchutz – A Guiding Light

Who was Leo Marchutz, this Franco-German painter and lithographer  who died in 1976 -  four years before my arrival in Aix?
Life in France

Home Sweet Home!

How good it is to be home after a whirlwind tour of art shows in America.
Creative Process, Life in France, Nature, Workshops

Lavender in July

In the heat of July, Provence is colored in shades of purple as the lavender flowers bloom, releasing their sweet, heady scent.
Life in France, Nature

Our Summer Baby

Meet Ocha - our new kitten and the new girl in the studio!
Creative Process, Exhibits

Moving Mountains Exhibit Preview

ON TOUR THIS SUMMER  —  International sculptor, Sergio Ruffato, and French based, Atlanta-born painter, Jill Steenhuis, will be showing an exceptional selection of artwork, including metal sculptures, oil paintings, and lithographs in Wilson, Wyoming from August 2-4, and in Hamilton, Montana on August 7th and 8th.
Group of oil painters in poppy field
Creative Process, Life in France, Nature, Workshops

Poppy Profusion for Painting Workshops

SPRINGTIME IN PROVENCE — An unusually rainy spring led to more bountiful flowers in the landscape for my two oil-painting workshops in May. In spite of some rainy days, we journeyed out en plein air to experience nature and allow our inner poetry to emerge on the canvas.
Exhibits, Life in France, New Works, Press & Publications

Steenhuis Ruffato Family Aix-hibition

Exhibits, New Works, Press & Publications

Jill and Sergio – 2018 Spring Tour

Creative Process, Life in France, Nature

2018 Greetings from Aix

Exhibits, Press & Publications

Jill Selected by The Salmagundi Club – NYC

From January 29-February 15, 2018, the Salmagundi Club in New York will be showing Jill's lithograph “The Sower Went Forth to Sow” in their competitive Printmaking Exhibition.
Exhibits

5 Steps to Hosting a Successful Art Show

Share your passion of art by organizing an event of Jill's work. Sound daunting? It's not! Here's how in five steps.
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