Biography
Bea
Jillette received a B.A. in Fine Art from Brown University
and a Certificate in Commercial
Art from the Rhode Island School of Design. She studied
watercolor for several years
with William Hollingsworth in Windsor, Vermont and attended
watercolor workshops with James Scott, Zoltan Szabo, Barbara
Nechis, Carleton Plummer, Tony VanHasselt, Skip Lawrence,
Christopher Schinck, Don Andrews and Judi Wagner.
She
is a juried member of the New Hampshire Art Association
and
belongs to the Chester
Art Guild and the Vermont Watercolor Society. She has
shown in various one-person and group-juried
shows. Her work is available at the New London Gallery,
New London, N.H. and the Covered Bridge Gallery, Contoocook,
N.H.
Bea
worked as a graphic artist for the Boston City Planning
Board, Claude Miquelle Associates and the N.H. Office of
State Planning. She also taught photography, mechanical
drafting
and graphic arts in a program for handicapped adults at the
Claremont Vocational-Technical College.
Now
retired, she enjoys painting flowers and the New England
landscape. She tries to capture the infinite surprise of
design, color and form in nature and to express this with
the runs,
washes, hues and accidents of watercolor.
Watercolors
by Bea Jillette
Good Neighbors
View of Mt. Sunapee
Snow Shadows
Mount Sunapee Closeup
Jericho Barns
