THE WEY GALLERY |  Sally McGill

Sally studied Interior design at the London College of Furniture from 1969 –1972 and Clothing Technology at the London College of Fashion from 1976 – 1978. From 1990 onwards she took courses in Life Drawing, painting and etching. The main inspiration for her work comes from landscape, particularly when seen from the air so that the world becomes flat pattern. “I am interested that you can often see the history of the land – tracks of former roads cutting across fields, standing stones, clearings etc”. Sally likes to organise shapes and patterns, starting paintings in a loose way, incorporating drips and accidental marks, working in layers and using a fairly limited palette. She has always worked on paper as well as canvas and tried different printing methods including etching and lithography, but is now concentrating on screenprinting as it most suits the way she work.” Sally has exhibited regularly since 1998, showing in and around London and also in France and Switzerland, both in solo and group shows. Two of her prints, 'Water Marks' and 'All in All', have won prizes at Originals 06 and 08 held at the Mall Galleries in London. She has also shown prints at the Royal Academy Summer exhibition (2004), The Hunting Prizes (2005), Originals 2006 where she was awarded the Julian Trevelyan Memorial Prize that year and in 2008, at The Chelsea Arts club, the Discerning Eye and two solo shows at Galerie Aalders in La Garde Freinet.