Jean grew up in Naples, Italy, New Orleans and the Carolinas. She completed her education with an MFA (Painting and Drawing) at James Madison University in Virginia. Her art career has led her to Moscow, Russia as a set designer and she regularly returns to Italy and Ireland (often leading painting workshops). She has been awarded a residency at Chateaux Orquevaux in September, 2019 Jean returns to Ireland in 2020 to teach painting workshops as part of the Listowel Visual Arts Week.(oops, that didn’t happen!) The Olive Stack Gallery will host Jean in May/ June 2021 for a Residency in Listowel, Ireland. When not working plein-air, she creates large scale paintings in her studio, Dilworth Artisan Station in Charlotte, NC.