Victoria Gillow
Oil Paint
Victoria Liana Gillow is a Cornish painter, based in Falmouth, whose work is inspired by her Cornish heritage and a lifetime of living by the sea. Her work explores the importance of the sea being ever present and by living and working in the land beside the sea she understands and acknowledges how important, restorative and kind Cornwall’s maritime climate and landscape is:
Victoria paints within the sheltered shores and on the headlands.
She is interested in how the soft valleys, gardens, coves and harbours, on the edge of the sea, shelter us. We are on the edge, aware of the raw energy, strength and space that the ocean gives us. The shelter allows us to understand and watch in kind spaces that protect us.
Here the edges are blurred, for instance where tree lines and headlines move beyond the land and bridge the sky and the edges of the shore meet the sea. The restorative nature and energy we get by living on the edge of the sea also evokes the idea of an emotional boundary, as well as physical, where we often experience a change in feeling and perspective by being on our coast, our fields, gardens and moors that edge our sea.