Jean Tuttle

Background

Jean's art education began at home — a household filled with art, books, and "creative monkey business" by her mother Priscilla, a graphic designer and artist with a great eye and sense of fun.

After receiving her BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design, Jean based her studio in Manhattan for the next dozen years. By the mid-1980s she'd developed a high-impact, graphic scratchboard style, and had begun doing freelance assignments for clients such as Newsweek, Business Week, The Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times. She also began a long and fruitful relationship with Reactor Art & Design in Toronto, who served as her agent for the next 15 years.

It was through one of Reactor's partners, the visionary designer Louis Fishauf, that Jean was introduced to the computer in the late 1980s. She has used Adobe Illustrator to create her professional work ever since. More recently she's added Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, CSS and XHTML to her skill set, and is scheduled to complete a certificate in Web Visual Design next spring.

Meanwhile Jean continues to create illustrations for magazines, newspapers, advertisements, corporate communications, packaging and products. Over the years her images and self promotions have been featured in books and magazines about design, illustration, and digital technique, and have been recognized with awards from American Illustration, Print, and The Society of Illustrators, among others.

After 30 years on the east coast, and another six in Denver, Jean recently returned to her Midwestern roots. Her present studio is located at Lakeside Legacy Arts Park, a community of artists, musicians and art educators in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

Partial Client List

American Express, Barron's, The Boston Globe, Business Week, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The Chicago Tribune, Children's Hospital (Denver), The Discovery Channel, Fidelity, Ghirardelli Chocolates, The Hartford Courant, Lucent Technologies, Moosehead Breweries, Newsweek, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Prevention, Reader's Digest Media, Reebok, Rolling Stone, Smith Barney, Sprint, Time, Time for Kids, Sports Illustrated, Trincero Family Estates, United States Bureau of the Census, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post

Recent Group Exhibitions:

• 2011
  • Rolling Stone: The Art of the Record Review
    Society of Illustrators, NYC
  • 35 Years: Parsons to Portales
    Illustrations by Jean Tuttle & Brad Hamann
    Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM
• 2008
  • NYC: Real & Imagined | ICON5, NYC
  • Annual Exhibit | Colorado Alliance of Illustrators
    Lakewood, CO
• 2007
  • 49th Annual Exhibition | Society of Illustrators, NYC
• 2006
  • Beautiful Baby Show | Society of Illustrators, NYC
  • Boys Club | Rocky Mountain College of Art, Lakewood, CO
• 2005
  • Commercial Visions: Personal Illustrations
    Parkland Art Gallery, Champaign, IL
  • 47th Annual Exhibition | Society of Illustrators, NYC
• 2004
  • 46th Annual Exhibition, Society of Illustrators, NYC
  • Annual Exhibit | Colorado Alliance of Illustrators,
    Denver Press Club
  • Solo Show | The Funky Buddha, Denver, Colorado
  • The Beauty Show | The Funky Buddha, Denver, Colorado
• 2003
  • Favorite Flix | Society of Illustrators
    Society of Illustrators, NYC
• 2002
  • Drawing Conclusions | First Experience Gallery
    Glastonbury, CT