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GILLEAN WHITAKER SWA, SFP, NDA (Society of Women Artists. - Society of Floral Painters, National Diploma in Design)

Gillean is an accomplished artist of many years, since at the age of five when she won a National Newspaper Childrens’ Painting Competition and her design and painting tuition at the Cheltenham College of Art.

Gillean’s expertise in handling watercolour and acrylic and her draughtsmanship and ability to create wonderful pictorial design, has been fully recognised by many groups of discerning selectors of Works-of-Art for Prestigious Exhibitions.

Guilt and Silver Medals at the Royal Horticultural Society shows, London.   Gillean’s work is in art collections world wide.

Not having a formula Gillean’s subjects are free to dictate the individual style and treatment needed in each case.

Her versatility and breadth of subjects and treatment must be a rare accomplishment among the artistic community.

For the first time Gillean's work, here illustrated, is available as prints of varying sizes and at a much reduced price from her originals and will enable many more people to enjoy Gillean’s very special paintings.
Gillean’s work has been selected by art experts from, sometimes many thousands of hopeful entrants to Britons top exhibitions:


  • The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
  • The Royal Water Colour Society Exhibition, Bankside, London
  • The Sunday Times, Singer & Friedlander Exhibition, The Mall Gallery, London
  • The Sladmore Gallery, London
  • The Tryon Gallery, London
  • The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
  • The Royal Birmingham Society, Birmingham
  • The Society of Botanical Painters, London
  • The Society of Floral Painters, Southampton
  • The Society of Women Artists, London

Gillean’s work was selected to feature in "A History and Dictionary of British Flower Painters 1650 – 1950" By J. Walpole.

It was remarked by a senior artist member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists during a critique by him of many artists’ work, that Gillean's Portrait painting had a Spiritual Quality.

Indeed this could be said of much of her work.

It has also been said by many visitors to her private exhibitions that it was as if there were several artists’ work on show as the styles and treatment of her many different subjects Flowers, Animals, Birds, Portraits Still Life, Land and Seascapes, each had individual treatment. Paper, medium and style vary according to her perceptive preference. Watercolour is invariably used for her Portraits, for instance, for it’s delicacy in achieving flesh tones, even though it is a more difficult medium in which to make corrections.

Gillean has never developed a painting formula, which means her work has great freshness and individuality. A painting formula locks a certain sameness to each painting and the subject is often made to fit to the formula.

ABOUT GILLEAN
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GILLEAN WHITAKER
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Royal Academy, Royal Watercolour Society, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Royal West of England Academy, Society of Women Artists, Society of Floral Painters, Society of Botanical Painters, About Gillean, White Tree Peony Blooms, Colourful Feathers, Owl and Barbed Wire, Great Grandmother Newman’s Candle Stick, Two Tree Peony Blooms, Moggy With Her Kittens, Honesty and "Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon" Seeds, Four Apples on a Bough, Dandelion and Two "Clocks", Roses in Floral Teacup, Two Hedge Hogs, Four Tree Peony Blooms, Phalaenopsis Orchid, Dandelions and White Butterflies, Bluebells and Yellow Butterfly, Dandelions and Buttercups, Three Clematis Blooms, Dandelion Clocks & Painted Lady Butterfly, Kitten and Garden Gate, Kitten in Ferns, Orange Lilies, Red Admiral Butterfly Red Admiral Butterfly, Spring Flowers, Baggins, Moth on Tree Bark, Row of Sun Flower, Pink Poppy, Row of Four Pink Roses, Single Pink Rose & Bud, Three Full Bloom Pink and Yellow Roses, Wild Flowers in Blue Jug, Harebells in Grasses, Wood Anemones in Blue Jug, Blue Polyanthus, Oval of White Roses, Buddleia & Tortoiseshell Butterflies, Single Pink Tree Peony, Old Boot & Dandelions, Sixteen Hammers and an Axe, Single White Tree Peony, Hardys Fishing Rod and Basket, Sprigs of Forsythia in Blue Glass Jug, Baby Rabbit Hiding in Buttercups, Daisies & Bumble Bee, Fruit in Basket with Pots. Dordogne France, Round Floral Design, Polyanthus, Snowdrops & ferns on Pebbles, Dandelions, Blackberries & Wild Strawberry, Buttercups, Birds Eye & Meadow Brown Butterfly, Swallow at Nest with Eggs, Violets & Orange Tip Butterfly, Daffodils, Tulips & Narcissi, Variety of Poppies, Nest in Corner of Barn, Jam Jar of Buttercups & Daisies, Farm Cart & Geese, Rhododendron, Three Yellow Roses, Flowers in a Hedgerow, Globe Artichokes, Oval of Wild Roses, Ten Feathers, Ten Tall Sunflowers, White Lilies on Black, Christmas Roses, Pansies in Blue Jug on Doily, Clematis, Rhododendrons & Laburnum, Assorted Spring Flowers, Grapes on Vine, Eleven Saws on Bench, Nine Hammers & Window, Periwinkles & Red Admiral Butterfly, Open Red Tulip and Variety of Other Flowers, Church of St Marks Square Venice, Drying Washing in Venice, Peeling Paint Venice, Triple Arch Window Venice, Artist’s Home View of Southam de la Bere, Sunset, Wren, Post & Wire, Tawny Owl with Young in Tree, Robin on Twig in Snow, Oval of Auricular, Buttercups, Chestnuts on Branch, Hydrangea & Peacock Butterfly,Four Poppy Blooms & Red Admiral Butterfly, Christmas Berries, Hellebores & Snowdrops, Nasturtiums,Hellebores with Holly Leaves, birds, landscape, seascape, fruit, flowers, butterflies, still life, buildings, boats, people and places in watercolour, acrylic, Gillean Whitaker, Gillian Whitaker, Jillian Whitaker, artistic merit of Animals, Camberwell Beauty Butterfly on Convolvulus, Blue Moon Rose, Day Lily, Speckled Wood Butterfly on Blackberries, Peacock Butterfly on Honeysuckle, Round Group of Crocus, Snow Drops, Polyanthus & Bee, Long-tail Tit & Nest, Sky Lark’s Nest in Meadow, Clerodendrom, Hedgerow Berries, White Butterflies on White Flowers, Sloes, Pernettya & Orange Pyracanthus, Badgers Emerging, Fly Agaric, First Shoes, Cheltenham Promenade in the Rain, Gladwyn Iris, Freesias, Wild Flowers, Snail & Brown Butterfly, Crocus & Polyanthus, Holly Leaves and Various Berries, Magnolia Grandiflora, Daffodil, Narcissi & Blue Flowers, Camellias & Rhododendron, Acuda, Medlar, Single Pale Roses & Blue Butterfly, Moored Gondolas Venice, Cedar, Catoneaster Tree, Strawberry Tree, Bryony, Robins by Post with Rusty Hinge, Various Fishing Tackle, Daisy & Convolvulus, Scrap Iron, Flowers Leaves & Sea Holly, Catkins, Oak Apples & Leaves, Twelve Fishes & an Eel, Bullfinch on Apple Blosom, Oval Yellow Roses, Four Yellow Roses on Blue, Three Water-lilies, Delphiniums in Border, an Arch & Figure, Eleven Gondolas Moored to Poles Venice, Red & Green Umbrella, a Wet and Windy Day, Passion Fruit & Flowers, Oval of Tulips & Blue Iris, Acorns & Cups, Chestnuts Breaking Out, Periwinkles & Primroses in Jam Jar, Purple Leafed Cherry Tree Blossom, Oval of Pale Roses, Two Bullfinches on Jasmine, Door Knocker South of France, Door Furniture South of France, Apple Blossom, Orange Lilies & Passion Flowers