Jill Sanders

Jill Cowie Sanders was born in London and studied drawing and painting at St. Martin’s School of Art 1948-1949 and Chelsea Polytechnic 1950-1952. From 1959 to 1960 she studied and taught art at the Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachussetts. Continuing her studies in the U.S.A. she won scholarships to study sculpture at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, graduating with distinction in 1964.

After graduation she married fellow student John Sanders and they moved to Spain where they founded an art colony in the now famous Roman city of Medinaceli, north east of Madrid in the province of Soria.

Jill works mainly in bronze now in her studio in southern Spain near Tarifa in Andalucia, working from miniature to life size and larger. All her bronzes are cast in Madrid.

For many years her work has been shown in European and American Galleries, including Madrid, Barcelona and Marbella in Spain. Since 1984 her bronzes have been shown by Jonathan Poole Galleries, in the United Kingdom, and many International Contemporary Art Fairs.

In 1992 her three entries were accepted for the “X Biennial of Sport in the Fine Arts” in Barcelona. The IOC purchased one of these for the new Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

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