Jill Mahan has always been passionate about art and graphic design. She always favored art classes and creating craft projects. As a freshman in high school, she was awarded the Silver Key for the Boston Globe Art Contest. She graduated from Winnisquam Regional High in 1997 and pursued a higher education at NH Community College-Laconia.

After graduating with her associates in Graphic Design, she entered the workforce as a graphic designer in a small print shop in the Lakes Region. After learning as much as she could from that job experience, she applied to a larger four-color print house in Concord.  After 9-11, She decided to go to art school to gain even more knowledge of art and in her field and earned her BA in Graphic Design with a minor in Art History at Plymouth State University. During her studies at Plymouth State, she took drawing, painting, photography, art history and graphics classes all while working part time in a print shop in Concord.

Upon graduating cum laude in 2005 she returned to full time work creating logos, business cards, brochures, magazines and pretty much anything printed.  Most recently she graduated with an Associates in Business Management and an Associates in Accounting in 2017 from Lakes Region Community College.