Hello, it's Antrice, and welcome to the Savvy Painter Podcast.

This week, I'd like to introduce you to the artist Jillian Peterson Craig.

Jillian paints still life and figurative work from her home in New York.

She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1961 and her MFA from Cornell University shortly after.

It was an absolute honor to spend some time talking with Jillian.

As a child, Jillian often visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she was particularly

fascinated by the Egyptian mummies and the concept of death.

Later, she had a pivotal experience of being moved by the Egyptian artwork.

And that experience of being moved, of being connected on a human level through visual language,

became the cornerstone of her work, something she continually

returns to and strives for.

Jillian believes that part of a painter's discipline lies in the act of dreaming, spending a certain amount of time

being a host to whatever images and feelings visit and then allowing those to

incubate until they form an image. She elaborates on ideas from her

self-published book, Julian Peterson Craig, paintings and etchings 1970 to

2011. There is so much to be learned from this conversation. Please enjoy

Jillian Peterson Craig.

Jillian, it is an honor and pleasure to have you on the savvy painter

podcast thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me

uh... it's a pleasure thank you for asking me

could you give me a

brief background on how you started painting just kind of a little view into the

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