Seema Gill

Having limited freedom as a teenage girl in India in the 1970s, she found solace in the world of drawing, painting, and poetry. After spending two years at the prestigious Art College of India, disillusioned in love and thirsting for freedom, she left India to travel - a journey which has taken her through adventures and periods of work in the USA, East Africa, Denmark, and the UK, equipping her with a kaleidoscope of experiences and images which have been interwoven into the subject matter of her art.
Seema Gill is not only an accomplished painter but also an award-winning poet and her debut novel “Svera Jang” had been nominated for the 2010 East Midlands book of the year. 

Her paintings evoke the joys and struggles of life in vivid colour, patterning, fluid interweaving subject matter, and spiritual growth. 

Two words sum up her work - versatility, and life. The former is reflected in the range of art forms in which she expresses herself, the diversity of cultural contexts in which she is able to operate, and of the media to which she seems able to turn her hand with ease. The latter appears in her exuberant imagery, bold and yet gently colorful paintings, filled with the intertwining forms of humans, animals, birds, fishe...

EDUCATION AND TRAINing BA,Political Science, 1969-1972, Punjab University, Chandigarh, Art College Chandigarh 2 yesrsDiploma:Tanzania School of Journalism, 1984-1986, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaTraining Courses:- Danish Language Course, 1974, Copenhagen, Denmark Porcelain Painter (overglaze), 1978-1981, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark

West 11 Gallery, London
Paddington Development Trust, London
Priestley Centre, Bradford, twice
Jasmine Cottage Galleries Derby, twice
Crompton Tavern, Derby
South Square Gallery, Thornton
Farefield Centre Basingstoke

286 Gallery, Earls Court Rd, London Jan 2014

"Spoken in colour, the art of a poet."
https://www.maidahillplace.co.uk/events/art-exhibition-spoken-in-colour-the-art-of-a-poet-by-seema-gill/?map=217
Earthday Exhibition of paintings with 2 other London artists 22nd and 23rd at St Peter's Church Gallery.

Chelsea Fringe Festival, Espaciogallery Bethnal Green Road London.
EspacioGallery Bethnal Green London.
Worthing Museum Galleries my painting 'She carries her own landscape accepted and now showing October 2001 to February 2022