Gill Bustamante

I am a professional artist based in Sussex and am known for my large, original semi abstract, contemporary landscape paintings which blend the near-abstract with the traditional. I have painted since I was three. It is the thing I am best at and it always makes me happy. I paint 3 or 4 times a week, sometimes for 5 hours at a time. I am very lucky and I know it.
My painting style is a fusion of Expressionist, Impressionist, Semi-abstract, Art Nouveau and something I term ‘memory impressionism’. This is where I go walking somewhere rural, look at and absorb the things I see and experience, and then come home and try to capture an ‘echo’ of the place from memory including any wildlife I may have seen.
I try to capture the essences of nature and landscapes – especially in ancient places like England. There is magic in this world that many people don’t get a chance to see if they live in cities. I see it and I like to share it.
I like to think that paintings have ‘little souls’ woven into them by artist’s and that these are what call to a viewer (or not as the case may be) and give a painting presence and desirability. My paintings call to those who similarly like to look beyond the material alone.
My driving ambition is to paint a way out of this universe and into a better one which is why most of my artwork features pathways, portals, and little mysteries.
One day I will disappear and you will know I have succeeded… Gill
Please contact me if you would like to make an appointment to view artwork (East Sussex) or to discuss a commission. I am always very happy to meet people!

I did an art foundation course at Chelsea in 1979 and completed a fine art degree in Brighton in 1983.

In July 2021 I will be appeared in Seried 2, Episode 12 of BBC series Home is Where the Art Is. Still available on BBC i-player

About Me:
I am an independent professional artist based in Sussex and I sell my artwork online and in exhibitions. I did a foundation art course at Chelsea in 1979 and completed my Fine Art degree in Brighton in 1983. I am a certified adult education Art Tutor trained by Central Sussex College in 1999.

Experience:
As an artist I have been at it since I was three. As well as selling my own work consistently, I have sold over 250 portrait commissioned paintings in oils or watercolours or drawings, painted many murals and spent 7 years painting Beatrix Potter characters on furniture for the high end nursery designers, Dragons of Walton Street. All this experience has made me a competent all round artist so it was natural that I eventually began to teach some of these skills. In 2000 until 2016, I taught watercolours, oil painting and drawing classes for Central Sussex College. Then from 2017 onwards, I began to teach from my own home and currently run 3 classes a week (details on my website). My students love my easy going light hearted manner and the fact that I can easily demonstrate how to do things in any medium. I often begin my lessons with demonstrations and this really helps less experienced students to feel confident. It also means I can have total beginners as well as intermediates and experts all in one class if needed. Because I can work quickly on art demos, and am very good with people generally I have often been asked to demo at fairs or exhibitions or at art societies including at one event recently at Henley which I did in coordination with the well-known SAA (society for all artists).

References:

See my YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dbF4E3EOZxxE5zyeULYMQ) for some of my painting demos
See my Watercolours Etsy store for examples of my watercolours. (www.etsy.com/uk/shop/WatercoloursForSale). Note that these are painted during demonstrations for my students and then I sell them on this site afterwards.
See my website for examples of my oil paintings. www.gillbustamante.com

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Solo Exhibitions History
Solo exhibition, March 2005 Chequer Mead Art Centre, Sussex, England
Solo exhibition May 2007- Pottery Painting Café, Brighton Fringe Festival.
Solo exhibition, June 2007, Hawth Theatre, Crawley, West Sussex, England
Solo exhibition, summer 2008 Chequers Hotel, Forest Row, England
Solo exhibition, 2010, Brambletye Hotel, Forest Row, England
Solo exhibition, The Gallery, Rottingdean, England.
Solo exhibition, 2010-2011, Sheffield Park, Chelwood, England
Solo exhibition, 2015 Da Vinci Hotel, Eastbourne, England
Solo exhibition, 2016, Kingscote Vineyards, East Grinstead, England
Solo exhibition, 2018, Ashdown Gallery, Forest Row, England
Shared Exhibitions History
Shared exhibition 1998 Chelsea Open exhibition, London
Shared exhibition, South East Open, 2004, Old Convent, East Grinstead, England
Shared exhibition, Society of Equestrian artists, 2005, Mall galleries, London, England
Shared exhibition, 2006 Arabesque Gallery, Bahrain
Shared exhibition, 2008, Obsidian Art, Oxford, Buckinghamshire, England
Shared exhibition, 2009, St Hill castle, East Grinstead, England
Shared exhibition, Equestrian Art, 2009, Iona Gallery, Oxford, England
Shared exhibition 2009, Blue Moon Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, England
Shared exhibition, Brighton Fringe Festival, 2010, Ambassador Hotel, Brighton,
Shared exhibition, 2010, The Art House Gallery, Havant, England
Shared exhibition, 2011 Equestrian Art, Gallery LeFort, Bath, England
Shared exhibition, 2013, New Art Fair, Wills art warehouse, London,
Shared Exhibition, 2015 Fishing Quarter Gallery, Brighton, England
Shared exhibition, 2015 Lindfield Festival, Lindfield, Sussex
Shared exhibition, 2014 to 2016 Shoreham Gallery, Shoreham, England (artists collective)
Shared exhibition, 2015 – 2017 Graham Stevens gallery, East Grinstead
Shared Exhibition, 2016, Parallax Chelsea Art Fair, London, England
Shared exhibition, 2017, Angel Art Gallery, London, England
Shared exhibition, 2017, Art at 5 Gallery, Brighton, England
Shared exhibition, 2019 Outstanding Art Gallery, Durham, England
Shared exhibition, 2019 St Hill Art Festival, St Hill, East Grinstead, England
Shared exhibition, 2020, The Villa Studio, Brighton festival

I like lots of artists but have not been influenced by any one person. If I could own a piece of art by another artist however, it would be a Gustav Kimpt, a PreRaphaelite painting or a Dutch interior painting

large landscapes, big oil paintings, semi abstract, landscapes, seascapes, contemporary art nouveau