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 - Landscape Painter
Based in Herefordshire, Siwan Gillick explores the borderland landscape of Wales and England.
"My paintings use abstraction as a method and landscape experience as a source. 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"
Education
1993 - 1996
John Moores University - Liverpool
Fine Art - BA honours
1999 - 2000
University of Wales
Aberystwyth
MA Fine Art
Exhibitions
2024
May 4-6th - Marches Makers Festival - Saint Marys Church Kington
May 23rd - June 2nd - The Chair - Hay on Wye Festival Week
2023
Order & Freedom - Made in the Marches Kington Group Show
Art At The Hall - Llangathen Group Show
Studio Cennen - Group Show Llandeilo
2022
Studio Cennen - Llandeilo Group Shows
Old Mayors Parlour - Hereford H-Art Award Show
2021
Lockdown Bookshop - Kington
Well House Gallery - Horndon-on-the-Hill Essex
The Lion Ballroom - Leominster H-Art Open Studios
Studio Cennen - Ffairfach, Llandeilo Group Shows
Simply Cheltenham Gallery Small Works Show
2020
Made in the Marches Gallery - Kington Landscape in Art
Yn dod i'r Olwg - The Bleddfa Centre Presteigne
The Land of Sol - Inaugural Group Exhibition Nouic France
2019
Ar y Ffin - Made in the Marches Gallery Kington Group Exhibition
Herefordshire Art Week - Open Studio
Landmark Trust - Llwyn Celyn Open House
Fountain Fine Art Gallery - Llandeilo Winter Exhibition
2018
Herefordshire Art Week - Open Studio
Oriel Q Narbeth - Open Exhibition