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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH


Jill Sattler is a free-lance photodramatist and painter in Santa Barbara, California. She is an honor graduate of Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. As a portrait photographer she specializes in atmospheric photographs and special effects. She has exhibited photography, paintings, assemblage, and jewelry at The Carnegie Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Forum of Santa Barbara, Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Karpeles Manuscript Museum, and UCLA. Jill Sattler has had the privilege to photograph the internationally acclaimed ceramicist Beatrice Wood, Chantal of Good Morning America and her dog Mollie, actresses Sandy Duncan, Betty White, as well as Susan and Jeff Bridges, Christopher Reeve, and Santa Barbara writers Jane and Robert Easton. Jill's works of art have been exhibited in conjunction with works by Beatrice Wood, Edward Curtis, Ansel Adams, and Timothy O'Sullivan, Kandinsky, Whistler, Lichtenstein, Matisse, Picasso, de Kooning, Diebenkorn, Toulouse-Lautrec as well as Giacometti, Sam Francis, Ed Kienholz, and David Hockney.

Jill gained notoriety in the field of jewelry design when her earrings were worn by Cher as the actress accepted an Academy Award for her work in "Moonstruck". Diane English, writer/executive producer of the television show "Murphy Brown", was featured in Elle Magazine wearing necklaces designed by Jill. In addition, Vanity Fair, Ladies Home Journal, Memories Magazine (front cover), Los Angeles Magazine, Santa Barbara Magazine, Montecito Magazine, as well as the Los Angeles Times and other publications, have also displayed her work.

Jill has the honor of having more than 100 of her photographs on permanent exhibit at UCLA Medical Arts Center in Los Angeles.

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Your life is a work of art... Jill Sattler

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