Gillian Matthews’ work responds to the correlation between contour and line, transcribing what is seen to what is felt and vice versa producing studies real, remembered and imagined.
She is interested in exploring elemental, geological and botanical aspects as a rhetoric between physical tethers and movement outwith a limited space.
Driven by fluidity, form and texture, ways of working encompass the following, individually or in combination: watercolour; charcoal; line drawing and textiles.
A passion for continuous line drawing is, to her, a flowing somewhere-else-ness and bold love of interpreting tangible, reflective or abstract expressions.
Exhibited at:
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
The Glasgow Art Club
Gallery Different, London
The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury
Contemporary Textiles Fair, London
Creek Creative, Faversham
East Kent Open House
South East Open Studios, Kent and Sussex
Artist member of the Scottish Society of Artists and Paisley Art Institute.
Lives and works in Scotland.