Collection: Siwan Gillick : Painter : Herefordshire

Siwan studied a Fine Art degree at John Moores University, Liverpool and a further Masters degree in Fine Art at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

After completing her studies, Siwan worked and exhibited before pausing her work to concentrate on raising her children. Since moving back to the borderlands of Wales, the inspiration has returned and she paints in earnest.

“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; for 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.”