Gill moved to Dumfriesshire, SW Scotland in 2005 after living in Northern England for many years. She grew up in Devon, London and Yorkshire and 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, an ongoing process, time built layers holding secrets to past times, past lives.
Mountain landscapes continue to have a big impact on me, creating intense visual and emotional memories combining an incredible energy, vitality and vulnerability.
Outdoors I work with urgency and directness using paint, inks, charcoal and natural materials - soil, shales, mountain water or snow melt. Back in the studio I build a layered physicality to hide, reveal or suggest."
" Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion" Richard Diebenkorn
"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
