Jean was born in New York City where she studied at the School of Visual Arts. She credits her artistically talented family as her main source of inspiration. As a young adult she moved to Colorado where she took up photography as a way of blending her love of art, nature, and travel. Jean later spent several years on the Gulf Coast of Alabama working as a stained glass artist. She moved back to Colorado in 2005 where she established Glasshouse Studio, working with dichroic glass to create jewelry. Dichroic refers to the reflective and transmitted colors of the glass, and it is what gives each piece of jewelry a reflective metallic finish. The dichroic glass is cut and then layered with other types of glass and then fired in a kiln one or more times to achieve the desired effect. Using her talent for cutting and shaping glass developed as a stained glass artist along with her own artistic flair, Jean is quickly gaining recognition as one of the leading dichroic glass jewelers in the country.