Like a fingerprint, each impression becomes individual, revealing a personality, a sensitivity to the skin. I needed a drawing space separate from my sculpting space so I designed a drawing studio upstairs and the sculpture studio on the ground floor. He rescues the wood from the property surrounding his studio and neighboring land, extracts and prepares blocks of various species (including ash, maple, oak, spruce, and willow), then makes prints by carefully following and pressing the contours of rings and ridges until the intricate designs transfer from tree to paper. Most of his woodcuts were created from dead or damaged tree parts that he collected and took to his studio to prepare cross-sections of the wood for relief printing.

Also featured are Gill's series of printed lumber and offcuts, such as burls, branches, knots, and scrubs. Earlier stints include the American Film Institute, Clinton-Gore White House, and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. The nature and trees around him have always been an creational source for him, not only are they beautiful from the outside at but also when you try to investigate a look inside.He was a fellow of the California Arts Council and twice received grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.

Woodcut will appeal to anybody who appreciates the grandeur and mystery of trees, as well as those who work with wood and marvel at the rich history embedded in its growth. Although Gill began his art career in glassblowing, ceramics and landscape drawing, he gradually turned to sculpture.GemmaSchiebeFineArt II Continuing my artistic education and recording my time throughout my second year as a BA (Hons) Fine Art Student at Cardiff Metropolitan University – “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. One of Gill's first works after he resettled in Connecticut was a sculpture composed of 42 upside-down hanging Christmas trees. Gill earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Tulane University in 1984 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland four years later. He is printing over a period of time and you can see and feel the slight changes in the texture or mushrooms growing on it.