Visionary Artiste
She paints the world as it could be.
"Luxe, calme et volupté." Luxurious, calm, and voluptuous.
— Jill Karlin
"Luxe, calme et volupté." Luxurious, calm, and voluptuous.
Can you hear them?
The Epic of Lee, Me, and the Tree.
Spoken word and poetry.
LIVE Podcast at Respectable Street Cafe West Palm Beach, Fl. Nov. 29, 2026 7pm.
Fun, sensual, imaginative, and playful.
Jill imagines a world of peace. She imagines the rainbow colours of possibilities of a world that works. She doesn't only paint such a world — she heralds Ekotecture, the environmental architecture she co-founded with her late husband Lee Porter Butler, as the blueprint for healing the planet.
The way we build determines the way we live.
Co-founded with the late architect Lee Porter Butler in 1992. Forty-five thousand books in print. Fifteen thousand drawings. Two thousand commissions before April 1981. The Medon Home — fourteen levels, a hundred-and-eighty-degree greenhouse holding warmth through a Tennessee ice storm. Lee's legacy. Jill's stewardship.
Read the story →Vibrant oil on canvas. Each painting a window into the world as it could be.
Letters from the studio, news about the show, and the occasional invitation to paint.
