Jill Partington

Hello, I’m Jill Partington and I am a Bolton born and bred lass and have one son, Matt.  I am retired and have lived in St Annes with my partner Peter, since 2015.

I was always good at drawing when I was at school around a hundred years ago, but failed my O-Level as I was rubbish at painting.  I then did a few drawings of Disney characters for my son’s wall when he was a toddler and since then…. Yes, you are right, I had never picked up a pencil until May 2022.

I got into watching Portrait and Landscape of the year when they started and safe to say am obsessed with the two programmes and was always saying to myself when watching “gosh I wish I could do that!” and making comments to Peter about wanting to draw.  Still, I did nothing about it until back in March 2022.when I saw art classes being advertised on Facebook and made an enquiry and that was that.  I started the classes – a ten week course and I loved the lessons that much that I enrolled on a further four courses and the passion began.

In January 2024 I joined Lytham St Annes Art Society going to workshops every Monday morning and Thursday afternoon and my art has come on leaps and bounds ever since.  I have made some really good friends at the society and I am on the committee. 

My two favourite mediums are pastel pencils which I use mainly to do pet portraits and the occasional seascape and fineliner pens with which I do dot drawings in cubism style.