Christopher Gill

Chris Gill is an abstract, improvisational action painter,
who lives with his wife, the artist, Jane Goldman, in the
Mixit Artist Cooperative in Somerville, Massachusetts. He attended Boston University as an undergraduate, and later the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Chris’ “day job” has been as psychotherapist, with 30 years of practice in the field, primarily working with adolescents and families. Chris is also a musician, who has played drums in several bands on the East and West coast.
As a painter, his primary media are watercolor and gouache. He paints on large rolls of paper, which he often cuts up later to make different size paintings. Chris rarely touches a paintbrush to the paper, though he uses one to splatter, drip and mix paint. Most of the time he spills, pours, squirts and drips paint on the paper from containers of various types and sizes. He also uses a variety of imprinting techniques, whereby he folds and rolls sections of the freshly painted paper onto itself, creating layered and textured effects.
As a lifelong musician, who plays the drums, Chris tends to paint very rhythmically. He considers much of his work to be a kind of visual music. He sees it as a birthing process, in which he finds great excitement and joy in the discovery aspect of how each painting, as a unique, organic creation, grows and evolves as a natural entity.

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