About Claire Gill

Hello my name is Claire Gill and 11 years ago stumbled upon an approach to making art that I love and have continued to develop into a large body of work. Back then, I wanted to paint and I began combining my own photographic images in photoshop in order to create ideas for a painting. The resulting digital collages excited me and I enjoyed the process so much that I have continued to work like this ever since and exhibit my work as original digital artworks in the form of limited edition prints. I offer three different size prints, all printed on Hahnemuhle archival cotton rag, with UV resistant inks. The smallest image size is 20cm square and the largest is 56cm square. Much of my work is inspired by a 'Sense of place' and I work mostly, although not exclusively with coastal imagery. I believe my work conveys a more intense sense of a place than I could possible convey in a single photograph, and I enjoy the ambiguity of it as it sits visually between photography and painting. Being slightly surreal, it leaves space for the imagination and I hope to connect with the viewers own memories of the coast and other locations. I trained in Textile Design at the Royal College of Art and my love of colour surface and structure is also evident in the artwork.