Biography - Gillian Campden
Contemporary Irish artist Gillian Campden works in many areas and has an exceptional diversity of styles and abilities. A professional artist living and working from her studio in Kilkenny, Ireland she has followed a natural devotion to her art throughout her life, having her first exhibition in London at the age of ten.
Gill pursued a career in applied biology, specialising in biochemistry and worked for many years in the UK in scientific research and development which included electron microscopy, this particular experience had a profound influence on her artistic visions and enabled her to discover a new way of looking at small things in a big way, which is apparent when you look at some of her paintings. Her early career developed into sales management and marketing where she accumulated sufficient knowledge and experience to begin her own entrepreneurial business.
Campden Art and Design Studios became a reality in 1998 first in the UK then relocated home with her young family to a rural Kilkenny, Ireland. The business has grown from strength to strength, offering a diversity of services. Gillian's attention to detail, business acumen and extensive ideas have allowed her to offer an enormous range of services to guarantee continued business from buildings commissions and installations, internal and external (personal and commercial), business logo and stationery design and production, trompe L’oeil s, murals, paintings and commissions. The studio has also produced a collection of hand painted and bespoke wedding stationary designs which have become an expanding core product.
With the Art and Design Studio well established, Gillian has been able to work again outside the commissions and producing an outstanding portfolio of work. |
Artist Statement
"My expression is pranalistic in form, taking a raw and wild energy flow and using it to create my
pieces thus appeasing the mind. My work comes from energy within which cannot be explained
or controlled, each piece is a creation taken from this energy and is a result of the many images
and emotions that I hold within.
I am fascinated by nature and how it wants to occupy every space and express itself with more and more variety, sometimes overwhelming us. I am intrigued by human existence in its many forms
and how it affects nature. This symbiosis is a major inspiration for my work in which I investigate
juxtapositional formation and associated interdependence of the forms in new ways.
Each phase of my expression and inspiration leads into another like the moon as it wanes. As I work and complete the studies they gradually decrease in illumination and draw to a natural close. Then the energy and inspirational flow wax thus increasing in illumination continuing my creative cycle. I cannot explain myself or the feelings that drive my inspiration, I do what I do and create continuously. Without the creative energy flow I am nothing and with it I am totally absorbed, functioning in the now and not knowing where it will take me next."
Gill
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