Gillian Melville

Artist’s Statement 

It takes me an immeasurable time to complete a painting, weeks sometimes months.  I work on them exclusively until I cannot adjust anything.  They start of with a skeletal structure then develop into more complex pieces.  

 

Objects and observation interest me.  Curating by: date, colour, pattern or any other means is how I develop my work.  I also enjoy a technical challenge and seek out complicated textures and forms.  I love the effects that are available when using watercolour.

 

The compositional works of Elizabeth Blackadder have been of influence to me as has Victoria Crowe’s use of paint and glazes and the brilliance of the visual understanding of life displayed by Arthur Melville and Joseph Crawhall.

The objects in these 3 compositions have been gathered or received over decades and symbolise themes, relationships and progress through life, on a larger scale they represent how the disparate elements of being can be brought together harmoniously.

Education

2002           Digital printmaking Course at DCA

2000           Introduction to Screen Printing Course Dundee Contemporary Arts print workshop

1998       Monoprinting course at Artichoke Printmaking Workshop London

1997       Completed Master of Design course in Illustration & Printmaking at

Duncan of JordanstoneCollege of Art

1996       Received 1st Class Degree with Honours Duncan of JordanstoneCollege of Art 

ACHIEVEMENTS

 2023       Awarded the by the RSW the W Gordon Smith and Mrs Jay Gordon Smith Award  

 2021      Awarded the Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association Award by the RSW    2019      Awarded the May Marshall Brown Award by the RSW

2006      Awarded the Windsor and Newton prize by the RSW

2004      Awarded the Cargill prize for young painter by the Royal Glasgow Institute                                      

1998       Awarded 1st prize by the New English Art Mall Galleries London

1998      Awarded Scottish Providence Award for a full colour lino print

1998      Awarded 3rd prize Professional category in Annual equestrian art competition in the“Horse & Rider” magazine

1996          Awarded the Sekalski Prize for Printmaking

solo exhibitions                       

2003    Roseangle Gallery Dundee                                                                  

Group Exhibitions

2024     The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour                             

             The Mall Galleries
             Water Colour Exhibition Frascatti                                                         
             ArTay Exhibition with Frames Gallery                                         

2023      RSW Open exhibition                                                                      
              Winter Exhibition Frames Gallery                              
              ArTay with Frames Gallery                                                               
             Fabrianno in Aquarello Exhibition                                              2021     141st Open Exhibition RSW                                                                2019   139th Open Exhibition RSW 

2018/19 ArTay with Frames Gallery                                                                  2018   Winter Exhibition Frames Gallery                                                            2017    Fabriano in Acquarello                                                       

2014   RSW Water Colour Exhibition Meffan                                              2013   Equestrian Art Exhibition Strathallan                                       

2006   The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours                            

2006   C21 Watercolour Exhibition Bankside Gallery                                       

2005   The C21 Watercolour Exhibition Bankside Gallery         

The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours                                                  

 Summer Show Resipole Gallery                                                                       London Art Fair with the Strathearn Gallery                                   

 2004   The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours                            

The Strathearn 10th Anniversary Exhibition                              

 The Royal Glasgow Institute 

2003   The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour              

C21 Watercolour Exhibition Bankside Gallery                                    

2002   Summer Salon The Meffan Gallery                                                        C21 Bankside Gallery                                                                                    RoyalScottishAcademy                                                                                

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour                                          Visual Arts Scotland                                                                                      Royal Glasgow Institute                                          

Society of Wildlife Artists                                                                              2000   Frames Gallery                                                                                Gallery Heinzal                                                                                            Forteviot Gallery                                                                                         

Atholl Gallery                                                                                            Gallery Heinzal                                                                                           

1999     Forteviot Gallery                                                                          

Atholl Gallery                                                                                           

Annual Aberdeen Artists Exhibition