JEAN DORTCH

Nashville, TN

Jean began her formal art training in high school at St. Cecelia Academy in Nashville and continued with an art scholarship in New Orleans at St. Mary’s Dominican College. Upon returning to Nashville she studied at the Watkins Institute while working in advertising and as a retail display artist.

Jean is married and is the mother of 8 children, grandmother to 24 and has three great grandchildren. In recent years Jean joined the Cheekwood Garden and Art Museum classes and The Chestnut Group "Plein Air Painters for the Land." Jean's paintings hang in homes and offices throughout the United States and Europe. She has studied with such renowned painters as Matt Smith, Janson Saunders, Ralph Olberg, Skip Whitecomb, and Dan Young.