Portrait Painter
Something About Jill
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From a family of six living in a council house, I grew up in a village atmosphere. We played on the green by the stream. I loved exploring and loved climbing trees, monkey climbing if the first branches were high. Being small and light I could sway at the very top.
When not out with the gang of children from the street, I spent a great deal of time at home lying on the floor drawing. I was fascinated by people and studied their faces. I can recall being at school and sketching an audience of different characters; a sea of faces.
...'People inspire me.'
Jill has not come through the usual channels. She has made it this far through a deep interest in, and love of portraying her fellow man, together with a lavish care and attention to her work rarely given today, and furthermore an innate sensibility to the individual's character and disposition.
The artist makes no bones about the fact that her dignitires portraits do take months to complete, and she is very happy when the subjects on canvas breathes.
From eighteen years old I travelled extensively across Canada and the States, around Europe and overland to India. Life was an adventure. I would sketch those I met, sometimes without the usual materials, for example, onto the porch wall of a bungalow on a beach in Goa.
People inspire me. In painting the other I get a sense of them. It is more a kind of merging. The act of paying attention gives something to them and something to me.
Between brushstrokes I like to dance! Free movement keeps me flowing, releases the physical tension of doubt and fear that come with creativity.
Over the years I've learned many fascinating practices and I apply it,
of course. Yet I find it's good to mix it
up a bit, keep it fresh.
I feel that a large commission requires a great deal of consideration, planning and of course one can go in intuitively. Always I look for shape and light, building it up and breaking it down again, in cycles, to allow life in the gaps.
I am enthused and excited by nature and by our own potential and life force and this influences my work.
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