Gillian Burrows London Exhibition Barbican Libiary

15/07/09

1 - 28 October 2009 Barbican Library Foyer
Barbican Centre, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS
Come and meet the artist painting
Monday & Saturday lunchtime 12.00 - 14.30,
Tuesday evening 17.30 - 19.30 during October.

A Picture of East London’ Lecture Wednesday 14 October at 19.30
Gillian Burrows & Alan Tucker, live art & film Barbican Library.
Refreshments will be served from 19.00,
tickets free of charge available in advance from
Barbican Library on 020 7638 0569.

London became Gillian’s adopted city nearly forty years ago, and working from her Docklands studio it continues to inspire her today. Her canvases are often still lifes of London, as if Gillian has flung open her studio windows with a burst of enthusiasm and transferred diverse elements from our cultural legacy into new settings on canvas. The City’s rich mix of people, iconic buildings, historic and contemporary associations are distilled into simple shapes or mere outlines which we can instantly identify. Her compositions reveal an artist who is equally confident working with realism as she is with abstraction, ranging from small, finely observed architectural portraits in pen and watercolour to huge powerful acrylic paintings saturated in vibrant colours.