Jill Storey has lived with her family in Twickenham for more than twenty years, but originally came from Cheltenham where she trained in Fine Art at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, followed by a post-graduate year at Goldsmiths College and several years teaching art at schools in London and Switzerland.

She started painting professionally in 1990 and has exhibited widely in the Richmond area as well as in open exhibitions in London. These include The Pastel Society, The Royal Watercolour Society, The Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. She has twice won a prize at the Britain's Painters Exhibition and in 2007, she won the Annie Longley Award at the Pastel Society Exhibition held at the Mall Galleries.

Jill has had work commissioned by the BBC, English Heritage and many groups and organisations. Her work is in several collections including the Museum of Rugby at Twickenham and Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum.

Jill works mainly in watercolour and pastel but enjoys mixing media and drawing is very important to her. The River Thames has been a source of inspiration to her, as well as parks and buildings in the area and her own home and garden.

After many years teaching in Adult Education, she is now concentrating on developing her own work, much of it inspired by foreign travel - the light and colour of new destinations, as well as the continuing fascination for the local riverside.

Jill's work is frequently on view in many galleries in and around London.