Jill R. Chow is a Washington, DC–area abstract artist whose work emerges from a profound personal and professional transformation.
After a 36-year career leading strategic communications, change management, and executive outreach across global organizations—including ACDI/VOCA, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Entrepreneurs’ Organization—Jill stepped away from the corporate world in 2025 as her industry shifted beneath her feet. What began as figurative, conceptual work to process that upheaval soon evolved into a deeply intuitive abstract practice.
In early 2026, a 25-day art challenge sparked a creative breakthrough. Free from agenda and expectation, Jill embraced experimentation, play, and emotional honesty.
Since then, she has painted abstracts guided entirely by feeling and presence: Her process is improvisational, sensory, and rooted in the belief that art speaks through the artist and to the viewer. Jill pairs each piece with a haiku, offering a poetic doorway rather than a literal description. She invites viewers to interpret her work through their own experiences, emotions, and inner landscapes.
Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries in both Key West and Virginia (early 2000s), and her ongoing collection is available through her shop, InnerArtscapes, on Etsy. Jill holds an M.A. in Public Relations from Ball State University, a B.A. in Communications from Purdue University, and a Certificate in Organization Development from the NTL Institute—training that continues to inform her sensitivity to human experience, transition, and meaning-making.
Today, Jill’s art is an exploration of emotional truth, intuitive movement, and the quiet power of color and form to say what words cannot.
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