Jean Gauld-Jaeger received training in decorative art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She exhibited her decorative art pieces in Chicago from 1963 to 1969, during which time she also taught decorative art classes there and afterwards, in Birmingham, Alabama until 1978. Following her academic studies at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (BS in Social Work) and the University of Cincinnati (MS in Health Planning and Administration), Mrs. Gauld-Jaeger began a long professional career at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as Director of the Office of Patient Affairs from 1978 to 2003. Near the end of her professional employment, Mrs. Gauld-Jaeger began studying fine art with well-respected portrait artists Michael Shane Neal, Roger Dale Brown, Anne Blair Brown, Dawn Whitelaw and many others. She continues to teach group painting classes and workshops in both her studio and other locations and has students studying with her on an ongoing basis. Mrs. Gauld-Jaeger is past President of The Chestnut Group, a group of Middle-Tennessee pleinair artists who capture the beauty of the Tennessee landscape in their artwork and raise funds to protect significant historical and natural sites in Tennessee; and President and Gallery Chairperson for the Tennessee Art League. A recipient of numerous awards for her portraits and landscapes, her oil paintings may be seen at Revelry Fine Arts in Nashville, Tennessee or at www.artbyjaeger.com.