Gillian A.Gordon (U.K)

I was born in India where my father was in the Indian army. I returned to England aged three and went to boarding school until I was sixteen. I worked in the Entomology department at the Natural History Museum and then apent about 30 years farming. Painful and harrowing childhood memories caused me to be treated in a psychiatric hospital in Aberdeen. I then came to London where I spent three years as a resident patient at Arbours psychotherapy community where I was introduced to art therapy. I have no formal art training and have developed my pictures alone. First the paper collages and then the textile wall hangings. I do no preliminary sketches or plans. They are more or less graphic, or disguised representations of memories, events and people in my life. I think of these pictures as a visual parallel to verbal psychoanalysis as the same themes are constantly repeated in both.

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