Jill Sands (Born in 1949) was born in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1978, at the age of 29, she began creating Polaroid photographs. This was like an appendage to her work with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland as Photography Curator (formerly the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art). Today, sheeexhibits her photographs worldwide and is represented by ROOM (New York), Soho Myriad (Atlanta), The Art Group (London). Her work is included in hotel, corporate and private collections throughout the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe, including Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Kate Spade, New York; Jeffrey Bilhuber Interiors, New York; Hilton Hotels, Ikea stores worldwide, Atlantis Bahamas Resort and NYU Medical Center. She resides in Sedona, Arizona. She uses Polaroid SX-70 film to make all of her photographs, and she creates them outdoors and in natural light.
This she believes is what makes her art to look realistic. Particularly the flowers which she arranges loosely in water and allows them shift with the breezes and light. The quality of many of her images is enhanced by that intrinsic movement. She views her photographs as pre-abstract, and as they are culled from her unconscious, she’s generally surprised by what comes out. She responds to both intense and delicate beauty in the world around her. She says that beauty, just as it is defined by the soul, is recognized as the soul’s reflection. Her images are glimpses of how her soul ‘sees’. Her art are available in many art stores around the world and they can also be ordered through many online stores.