Gill moved to Dumfriesshire, Scotland in 2005 after living in Northern England for many years. She has been a professional artist since 1989 after completing a B.Ed.Hons. degree and training at Bradford Art School.
“ My work is driven by the power and presence of natural forms and landscapes – vast natural spaces sculpted by huge geological and elemental processes – the continuous shaping of natural forms and the spaces in between, an ongoing process, time built layers holding secrets to past times, past lives.”
These processes are reflected in Gill’s work – building layers of tone, colour and texture using paint, inks, collage and materials to form a layered physicality.
“Places I see and experience in are absorbed into my visual knowledge and find their way into my work over time. As an artist I strive for a complex simplicity, a harmony of layered searching – a conclusion full of possibilities.”
The art of Richard Diebenkorn, Fred Williams, Alberto Burri, Antoni Tapies and Prunella Clough have particularly influenced Gill’s work.
"Landscape has been for me one of the sources of unending interest…the whole of nature an endless demonstration of shape and form” Henry Moore
