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 intended to teach painting workshops in 2020 in Ireland as part of the cancelled Listowel Visual Arts Week. The Olive Stack Gallery hosted 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.