Meet Jerilyn
Walk into her world, and you'll find watercolors drying on the patio, a stack of well-loved books — Van Gogh beside Michelangelo beside Richard Diebenkorn — and music from the golden era of Led Zeppelin and The Doors drifting through the air. This is not someone who retired from art. This is someone who simply moved the studio home.
For years, Jerilyn brought that same energy into the classrooms of the Cy-Fair Independent School District in Houston, Texas, where she taught fine art to more than 1,000 students. She wasn't the kind of teacher who stood at the front of the room and lectured. She was an enthusiast with a classroom of over 100 students each day, five days a week—someone who shared her joy so genuinely that students could not help but catch it. She played her music during class. She took 10 to 15 students to New York City each year to wander museums, ride the subway, and sit wide-eyed in Broadway theaters. Many of her students went on to win awards, earn Houston Rodeo scholarships, and pursue art school when they might never have considered it otherwise.
Looking at her work, it's easy to understand why.
Her paintings and drawings move across mediums with natural confidence — loose, expressive watercolor landscapes that capture light the way memory does; ink sketches alive with movement and line; bold oil florals that practically hum with color. Whether she's painting a coastal scene, a massive tree, or three young ballet dancers leaning close together, there's an immediacy to her work. A sense that she caught something true before it slipped away.
Her bookshelf tells its own story. Renoir. Sargent. Mary Cassatt. Gauguin. Alphonse Mucha. M.C. Escher. The breadth is telling — she's drawn not to one tradition but to the full, glorious sweep of what artists have done with a brush, a line, a moment of light. These aren't decorative books. They're studied ones.
These days, Jerilyn paints because she loves it — full stop. There are grandchildren to plan an "art day" with come summer, flowers in the garden worth capturing, and always another canvas waiting. This website is simply a place to share what she makes with anyone who wants to look.
We're glad you're here.
Scott Muster
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