Gillian paints glorious, large, confident abstract canvases full of glowing colour – because she wants “intensity” rather than tone.

In person, she appears rather the opposite – very quiet, unconfident about her skill, very down to earth, prosaic.  She is irritated by people’s determined search for meaning in her art – it is simply a visual experience – she wants them to simply look.  Probably the person least likely to ever issue an artistic manifesto.