Jill O’Flannery was born in Northern California and grew up in the Sacramento Valley. Early creative encouragement from her father, who was also a painter, stirred her already inventive nature as a child. Her compositions often embrace strikingly unique faces frozen in a perfectly captured moment. The sometimes unconventional perspective of a setting within a room or a background landscape creates a mood that is intriguingly dimensional. Curious viewers often find themselves imagining that they too play a role in such engaging affairs. From period pieces of traditional ballroom scenes to a solitary young maiden playing her mandolin on the waterfront, Jill has the ability to portray the charisma of both the working class and royalty of the times with such an allure that viewers can almost feel the disposition within the personalities that are rendered.