Jean Birrell*

previous member

Jean trained in physiotherapy and practiced for a number of years. After taking up painting and printmaking at Willoughby Workshop Art Centre she spent three years studying for a Diploma of Fine Art at the National Art School mainly working in printmaking.

Her special interest is in landscape and the natural environment in general. 

Lithography was the medium in which she started as a printmaker followed by woodblock, using both watercolour and oil and solar plate, now back to drawing using waterless lithographic method.