Jill Bliss is an artist, naturalist, educator, farmhand, caretaker, and deckhand who resides on a small island in the Salish Sea within the Pacific Northwest region. In 2012, Jill sold her house and nearly all of her possessions to move to the island and reconnect with nature after a bustling career as a designer in New York and San Francisco. She uses a variety of beautifully vibrant wild fungi to create stunning arrangements, photographing them for a project she calls “Nature Medleys.” Below are some of our favorite collections. You can follow the artist on Instagram and purchase her work through her online shop.
Jill Bliss writes, “I’ve invested my life savings in a modest half-acre of cleared land on a small island of 30 full-time households to live out the rest of my days in tune with the natural world. I satisfy my nomadic nature by holing up in various off-grid cabins on small islands, preferably with wild animals and semi-feral people for neighbors, mentors, and muses. These are the months for hibernation, quiet reflection, close observations of discreet moments in nature, art-making, sleeping, reading, cooking, chopping wood, stoking wood stove fires, hiking, and kayaking in the rain.”
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