Jeffrey Kroll was born in New York City of a British mother and American father. His parents met when his father was stationed in Warwickshire in the Second World War as a Morse Code Operator, having trained as a classical jazz pianist. His mother, a working artist, introduced him to art at an early age, taking him to museums, galleries and to her own studio.

After high school in New York Jeffrey went to the Philadelphia Collage of Art, and has since studied at the Academy of Art in Florence, the Museum of Archaeology in Athens and the University of Wisconsin.

Kroll works in the abstract, better described as non-objective, tradition, counting among his influences Picasso, Paul Klee, Kandinsky, Mondrian and Willem de Kooning. He also feels strongly that the entire painting tradition contains gems of artistic depth and value. His current preoccupation is with building layers of meaning and colour on the canvas, in what he describes as a fluid dimensionality. His painting is a celebration of colour that is both sensually direct and subtly diffuse; and colour ‘as the supreme metaphysical catalyst’.

A solo exhibition of Jeffrey’s work was held in Le Carrousel du Louvre, Musee Louvre, Paris in 1999 and he has exhibited world wide- in London, Turin, Mexico City, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Jeffrey’s work is widely collected by individuals and companies. Collectors include the de Rothschild family; actor Burt Lancaster and his family; vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Ashton Hawkins; famed American collector Jean Thayer; world authority on Buddhism, Dr. Minoru Kiyota and former president of Warner Brothers Bill Gerber.

Jeffrey’s exhibition within Harrods will be followed by a major one-man show at the Halcyon Gallery in Mayfair during March 2003. He will then be showing in the Patricia Correia Gallery in Santa Monica.

Since 2003 Jeffrey has had four sold-out exhibitions at the Halcyon Gallery at Mayfair and Harrods.

Jeffrey divides his time between Santa Monica, California and Stratford-upon-Avon.