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
2023
May - Order & Freedom - Made in the Marches - Kington - Group Show
September - Art At The Hall - Llangathen - Group Show
2022
April - Studio Cennen - Ffairfach, Llandeilo - Group Show
September - Old Mayors Parlour - Hereford - H-Art Award Show
November - Poems, Psalms & Song - Studio Cennen - Group Show
2021
April - Lockdown Bookshop - Kington - Herefordshire
May & June- Well House Gallery - Horndon-on-the-Hill - Essex
September 4th-12th - The Lion Ballroom - Leominster - H-Art Open Studios
Sept. 14th - Oct 9th - Studio Cennen - Ffairfach, Llandeilo - Group Show
Nov.17th - Dec 18th - Studio Cennen - Ffairfach, Llandeilo - Group Show
December 2nd - 23rd - Simply Cheltenham Gallery - Small Works Show
2020
April - Yn Dod i'r Olwg - Made in the Marches Gallery - Kington - Group exhibition
CANCELLED
May - Well House Gallery - Horndon-on-the-Hill - Essex - Exhibition POSTPONED - MAY 2021
2nd September - 31st October - Made in the Marches Gallery - Kington
Landscape in Art - Group exhibition
November - Yn dod i'r Olwg - The Bleddfa Centre - Presteigne
The Land of Sol - Inaugural Group Exhibition - Nouic - France
2019
March - Ar y Ffin - Made in the Marches Gallery - Kington - Group Exhibition
September - Herefordshire Art Week - Open Studio
December - Landmark Trust - Llwyn Celyn Open House
Fountain Fine Art gallery - Llandeilo - Winter Exhibition
2018
September - Herefordshire Art Week - Open Studio
December - Oriel Q Narbeth - Open Exhibition