About
Art of Jillian Crider - Personal Website of artist, Jillian Crider
Jillian Crider (artistjillian) grew up in the beach-side suburb of Grange, in Adelaide, South Australia as "Jill Capon" - part of the Capon and Lill families. Her birth family is from the rural mid-north (Riverton, Saddleworth) of South Australia - Hannaford and Noble - she was adopted at birth. She has lived in Australia, England, Germany, and the USA. She Currently lives in Southern Oregon, USA.
Jillian was born with a talent for drawing, and even though excelling at High School Art (lettering, design and history of art) with an "A" at age 15 (final year, marked by North Adelaide School of Art tutors), she is self taught, as she was not able to study further. This doesn't stop her from teaching occasionally, which she enjoys.
Employed through life in various fields other than art, she calls herself 'A Jill of All Trades', and this follows through to her art. One of her solo exhibitions was presented as 'A Jill of All Shades'. For a while she was self-employed doing house portraiture in pen and ink - producing over 9,000 portraits!
She works in a multiple of mediums and sizes, even including some very tiny miniatures, and very large murals. Her work is collected world-wide. She has won awards in notable exhibitions, and been juried into numerous art shows.
During her life she has picked up some odd areas to apply her art - rubber stamp design, set design, jewellery design, instant lottery ticket design, murals, billboards, photography, movie theatre advertising, graphic design, pop-corn cans, book covers, magazine illustration, and even a cow pat pad!