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Sketch book
Taking sketches and observations of form, line and colour from the source - in the open air. The basis of making new work
Sketch book
Taking sketches and observations of form, line and colour from the source - in the open air. The basis of making new work
Siwan Gillick MA RCA - Landscape Painter
Based in Herefordshire, Siwan Gillick explores the borderland landscape of Wales and England.
"My paintings are abstract but the ideas that start them always come from observations I make when out in the landscape sketching. I never set out knowing what the finished piece will ever look like; that is not the point. I have to ‘find’ the painting through the processes of mark making and the layering and removing of paint."
"Maybe no picture can capture what I comprehend of the landscape but, as a painter, I endeavour to try. I do this by finding and controlling a pictorial space; something that translates and expresses a truth about the underlying pattern of things"
Siwan Gillick was invited to become a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy in 2024
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