Daniel Liam Gill

Part of the Con­nec­tive Tis­sue Series, and later Ambigua­tion, this paint­ing was a break­through for me. I’ve always enjoyed fig­ure draw­ing, I taught myself to draw by copy­ing comics and picked up pas­tels from there. My ear­lier work is very pretty but lacks emo­tion. When I picked up oils in 2006, I strug­gled to get the same look that I had in my pas­tels and fell on my face more than a few times. I cut my palette to the basics-​burnt umber, alizarin crim­son, ultra­ma­rine, yel­low ochre and white, leav­ing me free to break away from the form and explore some­thing more raw.

This paint­ing is in the col­lec­tion of Claire Greenen.