Owl Pen Show receives funding from Ontario Arts Council. Running Sept 28 2024 to Jan 18, 2025.

The Owl Pen Revisited is a body of work by Gillian based on the woodcuts of Lucille Oille done in the 1940's. It is currently running at The Orillia Museum of Art and History until January 18th, 2025.

My work, Time and Vines, is part of the "Time Pieces" Silent Auction put on by the Orillia Museum of Art and History, as a celebration of its 25th year.

“Owl Pen Revisited” is my show of relief prints based on the work of Lucille Oille, an artist who lived and worked in Oro Medonte in the 1940’s-1950’s. 

Celebrating my first cover story, the March 2024 issue of Blank Spaces Magazine. Featuring a body of free and expressive paintings from autumn 2023.

Cover and story in March 2024 issue of Blank Spaces Magazine!

The dramatic story of our night on Lake Wakimika, and how this painting came to be.

My own reflections on the workshops I’ve hosted over the last few months.

I will be hosting a beginner Block Printing workshop in January of 2024.

Winter has arrived right on cue! I am closing the reproductions portion of my website until after the holidays. Hope you have a restful holiday!

The Owl Pen is set in Oro Medonte in the 1940’s, and tells tales of Wells and Oille as they fulfill their dream of building a homestead for themselves out of an old log cabin.

Stumped on what size of print to get for your space? Check out these three steps and handy tips to make sure you get it just right!

I yearned to add more texture into my art practice. Even though I enjoy my digital work, I wanted to experiment with a looser style to create work with more texture and patina. This inspired me to pick up a paintbrush and create a new collection of paintings.

Fall is upon us. Each morning we are greeted with an air that is more brisk, and we see leaves tumble to the ground. Some lament the end of summer, and many grumble about the approaching winter. Autumn is the natural progression of the seasons, we must go through it. It is the inescapable turn of the seasons, and reminds us that change is inevitable. If change is inevitable, then why do we so often we go through it with such resistance?

In this jam packed 4 hour class we will cover the basics related to block printing. No experience necessary! I will provide the space, materials and ideas for you to go from “I know nothing” to “look what I printed!”. At the end, you will take home 10 printed cards with envelopes, your carved block, and a stamp pad- along with new skills and confidence to continue block printing.

This year my bird count has been incredibly high, and it all started with a puppy!

Three years prior, a huge fire had ravaged the area, and the focus of the rescue efforts had gone into saving the Provincial Parks, and as soon as we left the boundary of the Park, we saw the full devastation. The fire had charred the forest and land as far as we could see.

The snake and the owl were originally battling in the air, but through multiple sketches they came to this happy agreement that owl would be allowed to carry snake- as long as we all know that snake is, in fact, not dead.

Bo had lately started going on adventures on his own, leaving the yard to go eat garbage, or even better- to go swimming in the lake in the neighbours backyard! He gave us a few scares when he left like that, and turned on his selective hearing.