Gill Tyson specialises in lithography, a printmaking process that combines direct and expressive mark making with deliberate and aforethought building of layers. In cool, atmospheric colours the artist explores remote landscapes. Her ever-present brushstrokes indicate a distilled image; an abstracted world that only hints at a human presence. Her lithographic technique has been described as “painting in slow motion”.

“My current practice is concerned with paying attention to the small segment of the world I inhabit on a remote peninsula on the North West Coast of Scotland, and in particular the incremental changes with the passage of time. The small acts of noticing each iteration of our own fragment of the world informs our understanding of changes of a larger scale.”

Tyson trained at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, where she graduated with an MA in Fine Art. In 2010 she received an award from Creative Scotland for a residency at an isolated printmaking studio in Donegal. In 2012 she was one of the artists representing Britain in The International Print Exhibition in Kyoto, Japan and in 2014 was Printmaker Of The Year at Printfest. In 2018 she was a prizewinner at the Society Of Scottish Artists was included in The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers: The Masters Screen and Stone at The Bankside Gallery, London.

She is a former Chairman of Edinburgh Printmakers where she makes her lithographs. Her work is in several public collections. Gill lives in Edinburgh and on Morvern, where she has her studio situated between a river and the sea.

https://www.gilltyson.com/