ARTIST BIO

As a young artist, Brittany began her journey with visiting many museums, viewing and studying exhibits of work by great artists, such as Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Mary Cassatt, Van Gogh, Picasso, Frida Kahlo and many more. Witnessing these artists, and what they produced, became the blueprint and inspiration for her style today. The passion, depth, self-expression and realism in their work inspired her to tell her own story within the work she creates. 

Up and coming artist, Brittany Gill, has been drawing and painting from the age of eight years old, and began her career at 19. Her first signature drawing was an abstract oil pastel drawing titled, ‘Girl with the Blue Eyes’. Brittany soon came to realize that her artistic strength was most prominent when she focused on female representation as her models. As she matured in her artist profession, she began to master the use of acrylic paint to produce her beginning collection of paintings. She paints the things that she relates to the most. Her goal when painting is to portray/ express feminine elegance and beauty, as well as nature within her portraits.

            As an artist Brittany is able to distinctively blend colors when painting in such a way that brings her paintings alive in vibrant form and is unique to her. A tequnique that took her many years to cultivate. She is able to use her colors, in her painting, to draw viewer attention to the eyes of the subject. The eyes of her painting subjects are usually uniquely vibrant in colors that generate numerous intense social conversations. 

            Brittany is a 26 year old artist who plans to travel to many countries to capture the essence of, and embrace, the many artistic cultures of the world. Her professional goal is to eventually open her own gallery and display her entire collection. 

            Brittany is currently attending The Princeton Academy of Art, located in Princeton, New Jersey. She is studying under the tutorage of trained professional artists and instructors, who are graduates of the Russian Academy of Arts. She is focused on mastering of oil painting, as she begins her next artist journey into the world of classical art.

As she ventures out from working with acrylics, and now into working with oil paint she tends to draw nearer to vibrant, but mellow, as well as, muted colors. Creating a portrait with the main figure in a vibrant bright color, with a muted/dark background, to create an earthy etherial essence. Her wish is for many people to view her work and feel a sense of an other worldly etherial experience. Whether the emotion is joy, calmness, happiness or melancholy. To an artist, every emotion is valid.