Jill was born Jill Grosvenor Decker in White Salmon Washington, raised rural Maryland, and further educated in New York City and Honolulu. She has traveled extensively and always has had a passion for the tropics, falling in love with Maui and making it her home in 1987. Jill has a great love of nature and is an avid hiker, biker and runner. She devotes much of her time to gardening, stone masonry, ceramics, woodcarving, and of course painting. Inspired by the lush colors and vivid contrasts of light and shadow she tries to capture this tropical splendor on her canvases.