Born in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 80′s, artist J. M. Guptill’s earliest memories are of drawing on butcher paper with crayons, while sitting on the kitchen floor. Her art has since progressed to be being painted on canvas while sitting on a shower curtain on carpet, then to sitting at a desk and now to an adjustable drafting table, still occasionally using canvas, but now mostly watercolor paper. She has also progressed from the Left Coast to the Right Coast, where she currently shares a residence in Charlotte, NC, with an adorable black cat, a fluffy white puppy and an equally artsy boyfriend.