Gill Tyson is a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art and The University of Edinburgh, with an MA(Hons) in Fine Art. She has specialized in Printmaking for many years, working from Edinburgh Printmakers, where she is vice-chairman. Her favourite methods of working are in lithography and wood engraving.

“As an experienced lithographer I can now enjoy employing a multitude of techniques in a medium which is fundamentally based on the antipathy of grease and water. Soap washes, manière noire (the the lithographic equivalent of the dark arts), acid biting, blends, traditional tusche washes and crayon, can be exploited to achieve just what I want, sometimes combining them with screenprinted layers and chine collé.”

Gill is interested in the influence of man on seemingly natural, and often remote, environments She has used landscapes as diverse as the Namib Desert and Orkney in her images.

Solo Exhibitions
2003 Windmills in The Sky, Open Eye, Edinburgh
1998 Recent Work, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
1995 Bringing it Home, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
1991 Season Words, W&J Burness, Charlotte Square; 1992 Queens Hall, Edinburgh; 1995 Turret House Museum, Kelso
1990 Wealth of Nations Conference, Sheraton Hotel, Edinburgh
1984 Journey Through India, Printmakers Workshop, Edinburgh
touring in 1984/85 to Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries; Dick Institute, Kilmarnock; Rozelle House, Ayr; Loomshop Gallery, ower Largo; Lochgelly Art Centre
1983 Frans Masereel Art Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium
1982 Edinburgh University Staff Club

Selected Group Exhibitions
2003 Interactions, Lithography Folio, Edinburgh Printmakers
2002 Il Quadrato, Galleria Associazione Culturale, Chieri, Turin
2002 BIMPE, Vancouver
2002 Dundee Print Open, DCA, Dundee
2001 Art for children in Hospitals, RSA Edinburgh,Kelly Gallery,Glasgow
1999 All So Diverse 8 printmakers from Edinburgh Printmakers
1997 Triple XXX, Edinburgh Printmakers
1996 The Call of The Sea, Open Eye Gallery
1994/5/6 /02 On A Small Scale, Open Eye Gallery
1988 With an Eye to the East, Scottish Arts Council Travelling Gallery 21 x 21, Printmakers Workshop Festival Exhibition
1986 Contemporary British Prints, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
1984 Mini Print International, Barcelona
Contemporary Scottish Printmakers, Mercury Gallery, London
1983 Grease and Water, Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition
Printmaking in Scotland, RSA Festival Exhibition
1982 On Tour in Europe, Printmakers Workshop exhibition in Europe
1981 Old Dominion University and Ghent Galleries, Norfolk,Virginia US
Five Young Printmakers, Printmakers Workshop, Edinburgh
1980 Landscape, Printmakers Workshop, Edinburgh
Lothian Printmakers, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
and also at the RSA,SSAC/ VAS and SSA Annual Exhibitions in Edinburgh, the RGI in Glasgow and Aberdeen Artists. Gill was elected as a professional member of Visual Arts Scotland in 2004.

Residency Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium. 1984
Commissions Friends Print, Frans Masereel Centre. 1984
Art in Business, Scottish Gallery, Launch print .1986
With an Eye to the East, wood engraving for folio and exhibition of prints commissioned by Scottish Arts Council .1988
Paintings in Hospitals, Scotland, commissioned to do series of workshops and a collection of child oriented prints and paintings for children’s hospitals. 2000
University of Edinburgh, Christmas Print 2002
Collaborative co-publication for print folio with Alastair Clark, at Edinburgh Printmakers. 2002
Publications Season Words, Haiku by John Manson and Wood Engravings by Gill Tyson. Published by Galliard. 1991
Stone Lithography by Paul Croft 2001

Collections
(including) Aberdeen Art Gallery, W& J Burness, Paintings in Hospitals , Ritchie Collection - Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, University of Dundee, Readers Digest (NY), Scottish Arts Council, Smithsonian Institution, Mobil Oil, Royal Bank of Scotland, Adam & Co, TSB, Shell UK, University of Edinburgh and many private collections at home and abroad.

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