The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will present Jill Nichols demonstrating painting clouds and sea in oils on Wednesday, March 27, at 1:30 pm.

The program will be in the lower meeting room of Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street (at the flagpole). The demonstration is open to the public and admission is free.

Jill Nichols’s painting explores both the earthbound and outer expanses of the divine cosmos. Her sense of color and composition has developed over the course of thirty plus years as a commercial artist.

She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado Boulder. In 2000 she set her focus on painting, at first training at the Art Students League in NYC; in 2015 she earned her MFA in painting at Western Connecticut State University.

Her commissioned painting of Washington, D.C., appeared as a backdrop for James Comey’s interview on Face the Nation, while another made its appearance on Showtime’s The Comey Rule mini-series.

Her artwork “Phi,” celebrating the divine feminine, was a part of the “Nasty Woman” art social movement in New Haven and then went on to be installed in the Vatican Observatory Museum.

She has received awards from the US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and Connecticut Office of the Arts.

An active participant in art communities throughout Connecticut, she has served as vice president of Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society and Valley Arts Council and exhibited at Lyme Art Association, Carriage Barn, Greenwich Art Society, and Lyman Allen Museum.

Nichols is an instructor at Silvermine Art School in New Canaan, and conducts painting workshops locally and abroad. She also offers videos on YouTube and holds real-time online painting critiques.

Reservations are not needed for SCAN programs but additional information may be found at SCANart.org.