Gill Bustamante

Gill Bustamante is a professional artist based in East Sussex who creates large semi-abstract landscape, seascape and wildlife paintings in oil on canvas. Her painting style is very distinct and often fuses art-nouveau, impressionist and semi-abstract techniques with traditional portraiture that reflect her love of nature, animals, birds and the flora and fauna of the landscapes around her. She loves the ancient landscapes of England and her paintings often reflect the magical elements that such landscapes have. Gill’s main working method has been the development of a painting style she terms ‘memory impressionism’. This method involves going walking somewhere, looking at and absorbing the things she sees and experiences, and then returning home to her studio to try and capture an echo or essence of the place from memory - including any wildlife she may have seen. By this method, she captures precise moments in times at different seasons and the feeling she has about them. Gill completed a fine art degree in Brighton in 1983 and has painted since she was three. In her own words: “Painting always makes me happy along with cake, bunnies, driving erratically, BBC 6 music and totally irreverent comedy”.
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I have a B.A. Hons. in Fine Art - Sculpture (I am self taught as a painter) which I did at Brighton and completed in 1982 after a foundation art course at Chelsea. After college I worked at the Open Studios on Brighton seafront producing fibre glass sculptures and other commissions together with an architect who incorporated my sculptures into his designs.From 1992 to 2000 I worked as a portrait artist for Andrew Hall (Artists Hand - a major art agent in Sussex at that time). Since 2001 to present time I have been a self employed artist and art tutor. My biggest claim to fame so far was that I appeared in Episode 12, Season 2 of of Home Is Where The Art Is on BBC 1 in July 2020 which is available on BBC iPlayer:

Exhibitions History:
2004 and before, Various open exhibitions including Chelsea in 1997, Summer exhibition, Old Convent East Grinstead in 2000, and Learning Centre East Grinstead.
2005 Jan - Shared exhibition with SEA, Mall galleries, London. May - solo exhibition Chequer Mead Art Centre, Sussex.
2006 June - shared exhibition Arabesque Gallery, Bahrain. Jan - solo exhibition Chequer Mead Art Centre, Sussex.
2007 August - solo exhibition at Hawth Theatre, Crawley, West Sussex. March - shared exhibition Obsidian Art, Bucks. May - solo exhibition at Pottery Painting Cafe, Brighton Fringe Festival.
2008 Sept - Mural Mosaic Canada with 238 other Equine artists mural now being toured throughout Canada and US. August - shared exhibition St Hill castle, East Grinstead. June to Sept Solo exhibition at Chequers Hotel, Forest Row, East Sussex. May - solo exhibition at Wealdon House, East Grinstead. Jan to Feb shared exhibition Iona Gallery, Oxford. All year Gallery presence at Objects d Art, Lingfield, Surrey. Feb - shared exhibition Blue Moon Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
2009 Feb - Solo Exhibition Brambletye Hotel Forest Row in February (25% profits to ActionAid Charity). May - Ambassador Hotel, Brighton Fringe Festival. June - The Ar...