About Spill

spill: \’spil\ ;verb to spread profusely or beyond bounds: artist statement: to create as much artwork as I can in this lifetime and share it with you! hopefully, it will make you smile.

Everything you see here has been conceptualized and created by artist Jill “Spill” Fressinier with lots of added love and support from family and friends.

Spill has been doodling her entire life and creating art professionally for over 25 years. Collectors & fans of her work span the globe.

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If you would like to commission or license an original work, let us hear from you. We love to create custom works of art for everyone! Thank you so much for visiting!

Resume of SPILL These are some of my accomplishments over the past 20+ years…what? Wow, time flies and I’m just getting warmed up.

Jill Spill Fressinier Personal Stuff: Blessed to be a mother of two glorious young ones, who bring me constant joy, both are remarkably talented, brilliant and beautiful. I’m also a wife, for 21 years now married to the love of my life, Jerome Jean Michel Fressinier. Super dynamic and adorable, he’s a fine artist, gourmet chef/visionary, gifted tennis player and a loving husband & father. My parents, amazing people, my mom, Diana Nightingale, an author, motivational speaker, my late step-father Earl Nightingale, author, radio legend (Sky King, Our Changing World, Radio Hall of Fame, winner of a Gold Record for spoken word from his original recording “The Strangest Secret”, and my hero). Earl was the person who lit a fire under me at an early age, encouraging me to not conform, “don’t play follow the follower”, recognized that I was a free spirit and put me on the right path. He told me to, “Do what you love, for a living.” I’ve worn many hats and tried many jobs, but art is what my heart directs me to do, I’m driven to create.

Art Related Stuff/What I do: Established self-taught professional artist since 1988. Interested in: creativity, arts education, visual art, non-profit work, music, fashion, entrepreneurialism, big ideas, standing out. Mediums and genres I’ve mastered or at least dabbled in: Drawing, all mediums, acrylics, oils, watercolor, gouache, mural, faux, furniture crafting, printmaking, silkscreen, photography, comics, illustration, house painting, interior design, mixed media, graphics, computer art, collage, airbrush, logo design, paper making, mosaics, sculpture, book illustration, writing, dimensional art, portraiture, tie dye, pen and ink. Style: contemporary, pop, abstract, fauve.

Things I’ve accomplished that stand out in my mind:

1988 Illustrated the Eat & Grow Thin cookbook and cassette program for The Keys Company, which my parents founded, artist in residence Zia records Phoenix, Tempe, did ads, signage, displays

1989 Airbrushed and silkscreen t-shirts, logo design, met my love

1990 Got married, had our beautiful son, Jordan

1991 Had our beautiful daughter, Juliette

1992 Full time mommy action

1993 Floodgates of creativity burst open, recognized a need for a quality children’s show, wrote and illustrated Spill and Her Rose-Colored Glasses, knowing it would be published and turned into an animated series or movie (still believe that will happen, I think the industry just needed to catch up with me :0), designed greeting cards, cartooned

1994 Painted, developed my style

1995-96 Worked for Riddle Art in Phoenix, made a lot of cool art and sold a lot, painted murals (St. Joseph’s pediatric ER), wrote/illustrated another story “The Girl and the Good Tree”, got a little feature in Phoenix Home & Gardens of the first table I painted funky/cool

1995-96 Sold art at the Main Artery Scottsdale, painted murals on all the walls of Jamaican Blue Coffee house

1997 Moved to Clearwater Beach FL, opened up a groovy place called The Papa Java Café & Art Mama Gallery, ran it with Jerome, filled it with cool art and great food, organized a nice mural with the kids from the local Montessori school, wrote and illustrated my 3rd story “Clamroy and Lubble”, went to Chicago where I met cartoonist and literacy activist, Phil Yeh, painted a mural with him, he invited me to put my Spill character in his comic books with some legendary cartoonists like Sergio Argones and Bill Bates.

1998 Moved back to Carmel where I also had spent most of the 1980’s (my favorite place) opened up the Spill Gallery in The Barnyard, had fun, Peter Max collected two of my paintings, created tons of art, worked with Cartoonists Across America & The World, painted murals and was featured in the Monterey county Herald several times including the front page!

1999-2000 Closed gallery and worked from home to be with my children, sold cool hand painted shower curtains with a national mail order catalog featuring all women artists “Femail Creations”, sold works at local stores, sold line of cards at the Phoenix store at Nepenthe in Big Sur, had art in Carmel restaurants, was on a radio show with Jerome talking about being an “artist couple”, did some commissioned works

2001-2002 Worked from home and on the East Coast, did solo shows in Florida and a group show with Robert Rauchenberg and in Georgia including Folk Fest Atlanta. Went back to California, donated a work to Kid’s First the Coalition for Quality Children’s Media, for their Film Festival promotional pieces, showed some work on outsiderart, 2002 Invited to participate in a group show at the first memorial of 9/11 at the Globe Institute of Technology (4 blocks from ground zero) the curator called my work “a magnet for drawing people together”, featured on Russian TV and news. Did a solo show at Avalon Gallery Carmel-by-the-Sea, got another full page write up in the Monterey County Herald written by my dear friend Lisa Crawford Watson who also writes for Arts & Antiques and Carmel Magazine.

2003 Invited to have my artwork used for The Global Fund for Women’s international fundraising campaign

2004 Works shown in Geneva Switzerland, Cognac France, Commissioned to paint a giant Indy Car for legendary race car driver, Michael Andretti, also created some cool mugs and appointment book for his wife Leslie’s salon, “Envy”, PA

2005 Opened and ran our own restaurant in downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea- Sugar Reef, where we were the first to have live music since it was banned 60 years ago, had several articles written and voted Most Unique restaurant in Monterey County, Jerome had a weekly radio show spot on KRML (the radio station in the movie “Play Misty for Me”, our restaurant was chosen by Tiffany & Co. for their private corporate party, hung out with George Rodrigue, he gave me an original “Blue Dog” crayon drawing, Painted portrait of Clint Eastwood’s wife, Dina

2006, taught art to kids with Abrakadoodle, met David Arquette, was an extra in his movie “The Tripper” and made some art for him

2007 moved back to AZ, asked to do cover art for world famous author, poet and playwright, Ntozake Shange’s poetry books

2008 asked to do cover art and illustrations for the Monterey Poetry Society magazine, made tons of art and fashions for the band Cobra Starship

2009 More art for Cobra Starship, Spill Art Leggings for Victoria Asher, currently working on a building my brand, creating new designs for my e-commerce site and other fun projects as well as non-profit work.