About Lee Ann

Artist Bio

Lee Ann Thill (b. 1973) is a painter and mixed-media artist whose richly textured and layered abstractions of cellular structures and processes bridge the medicalized experience of invisible disabilities with the consequent emotional, relational and temporal complexities. She reclaims a life dictated by diagnoses and lived under a microscope with a fluid style of working with acrylic and collage that embraces improvisation and ambiguity. The body of paint becomes a metaphor for the body, and her use of layering and collage evoke a sense of history and knowing versus not knowing.

Born in Texas, Lee Ann moved to the Philadelphia area at age 12. She earned a BFA in Painting & Drawing and Ceramics from Tyler School of Art (1996), followed by an MA in Art Therapy from Drexel University (2004) and a PhD in Expressive Therapies from Lesley University (2021). After 25+ years as an art therapist, she is now focused on her painting and collage practice in her home studio in South Jersey, sharing an expanding body of work, extending her reach to viewers and collectors, and continuing to evolve as an artist.