Jilly trained for four years at the Slade in Fine Art and Etching.
Part-time teaching in art-schools, museums, secondary schools and, currently, adult education, throughout her career.
She has shown regularly in group exhibitions, most recently the Chichester Open (2005 and 2006), invited artist for The Discerning Eye (2006), Halesworth Gallery (2007) and Gallery Duncan Terrace (2005, 2006, 2007, and 2007).
Member of two exhibiting societies: Harleston & Waveney Art Trail (2006, 2007 and also in July 2008) and art@TW11 Group (2005, 2006, 2007 and in July 2008 in Bushy Park House)

“Since living for part of the year on the Suffolk/Norfolk borders the persistent theme of the English landscape in my work has attained a sharper focus. Bigod’s Way, the ancient pathway that runs beyond the fields where we live, reveals, high above Outney Common, most lovely glimpses of river and the changing patterns of standing water. This gleaming, fertile flood plain, ringed with trees, combined with my own poetic mantra: “The consolation of pattern”, has been a very positive inspiration for my recent work.”