C.R. Gill Art

@catalyst-artworks

Nonbinary Artist (they/them) Ottawa, Canada Member of Ottawa Society of Botanical Artists Instagram: @catalyst_artworks

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C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· 29d

A painting that sold years back. One of the first I completed when I was learning to use water soluble encaustic paint. #artrepostjuly #bone #sciart #fungi

A sphere of yellow oyster mushrooms round like the globe of a human skull silling out of a jaw bone.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· 29d

I'm a Canadian non-binary artist who paints portraits, still life, plants, fungi, and anything that amuses me. Sometimes I incorporate sculptural elements. 🏳️‍⚧️🐡 #portfolioday

Oil painting of a triad of portraits each painted with only three colours (white, black, and one other) each showing a different mood and emotion.

Water soluble encaustic on black paper painting of a hoya vine blooming. One cluster of blossoms is open with white petals showing pink centers and the other cluster is closed up like oragami stars.

Oil painting of a do skull with a big cluster of chestnut mushrooms, one of which is sticking out through the eye socket like a brown eye on a stock.

Still life oil painting of an apple on a green table cloth. Shiny black trilobites climb on the apple and escape from the table.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jul 13

Water soluble encaustic on black prepped wood. Based on pitcher plants I met in Newfoundland. #artrepostjuly #botanicalart #colorful

Painting of a pitcher plant. The purple and green leaves are in different stages of growth and the flowers are both buds and open.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jul 12

This has been in my brain for years since a seminar on Hieronymus Bosch. I haven't been able to work on serious stuff in weeks due to pain and fatigue. Hence... BEHOLD. #wip

A preparory sketch of a melty dildo house with little armoured long nosed men in the windows. One is shooting a crossbow at the butt of a huge nosed creature with a strawberry on its head. A freathered dude with a helmet and a clover leaf staff is rounding the vack of the house. A bird with plumage sits on the tip of the house. Fish fly over surreal mountains in the background while the sun drips in the sky.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jul 12

An experimental piece that unfortunately got damaged when I varnished it. I still like it. #artrepostjuly #pattern #sculpture #transart

A 3D hand exploding from a wall and scraping the pink and green striped wallpaper off of a chest with top surgery scars.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jul 9

My studio chair ends up in so many paintings. Oil paint on canvas. #orange #artrepostjuly #pigeons

A mafia of pigeons invading my studio and checking out an orange wingback chair. On pigeon breaks the fourth wall and stares out at you.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jul 7

I'm a Canadian non-binary artist who paints portraits, still life, plants, fungi, and anything that amuses me. Sometimes I incorporate sculptural elements. 🏳️‍⚧️🐡 #portfolioday

An eggplant trussed up nice and cozy in white rope lounging on a upside down yellow bowl like one of your french girls.

Sculpted and painted bright orange lobster mushroom. Orange like traffic cone orange.

Painting of a transmasc person lounging comfortably, showing off his scars.

A stem of white moth orchids with radiating pink spots just looking beautiful.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 28

When I am in the studio and want it to act more like acrylic, I set the layers with a heat gun so that it stops lifting and mixing.

Water soluble encaustic on black prepped canvas board. Painting of orchids done by setting layers with a heat gun.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 28

I have another kit that that is tiny where I treat it like regular water colour. It can be thin and translucent or thicker and cover.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 26

I had a shitty week.

Sketch of a pair of feet, one with a slipper on, one bare. The bare foot has orange crystals sticking out of red skin.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 11

This lovely little still life, Purple Dildo Salad, is on sale at 5th Annual Uptown Pride, June 11 – July 4th. Dignam Gallery, 23 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto #transart #prideart #painting #art #stilllife #naturemorte

A still life painting of a bowl of eggplants and cucumbers spilling out beside a pile of bananas and asparagus. A purple dildo is hidden in the painting.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 8

Quick sketch of a peony #pleinair #bloomscrolling #botanicalart

Painting of a super saturated red peony with a yellow center on a painting box in front of the real thing.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 7

#pleinair #botanicalart #trees

Painting sketch of a stand of conifers with sky peeking between the branches. The actual trees in the behind the painting box.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 6

Peony from last weekend's trip to the arboretum. I'm planning on being there again tomorrow . #bloomscrolling #botanicalart

Painting sketch on black paper of a peachy white peony on a stem with leaves.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 5

#wip

Underpainting of a pair of metal gauntlets and a bouquet of orange and pink flowers on a blue blanket in a cardboard box.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 5

Lilac paint sketch from the arboretum last week. #bloomsky #botanicalart #lilac #pleinair #painting

Painting of a bundle of pink purple lilacs hanging off a tree branch with a lstem of leaves, on grey paper.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 3

Sketching at the conference yesterday #botanicalart

Painting of a five lobe leafed plant with spiky leaves on a conference table with the plant in front of me.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 2

Canadian Botanical Association Conference, June 2-5th Art Meets Science - The OSBA Exhibition featuring thirteen OSBA artists' work inspired by specimens from the National Herbarium is opening next week from June 2-4 in the Atrium at Richcraft Hall, Carleton University, Ottawa #botanicalart

Sculpture of a bright orange lobster mushrooms surrounded by white pepper caps on which it is a parasite.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· Jun 1

Another paint sketch from yesterday. #pleinair #botanicalart #bloomsky

Painting peonies on the grass. A pale peach peony with a yellow center and a painting of it on black paper in a painting box.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· May 31

Visiting the arboretum today. #pleinair #painting #botanicalart

Painting lilacs in the arboretum. A painted sketch of purple lilacs on grey paper sits in a pochard with paints in it. A lilac bush in full bloom is behind.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· May 29

One morel popped up in my yard. Because I want more, I left it to procreate as it saw fit. After it was done, I sketched it. #mushroom #botanicalart

A decayed morel mushroom next to a quick sketch of said mushroom. They look rather loke a smurf house died and became undead.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· May 25

Water soluble encaustic on black prepped wood board. 12x12 #fungimonday #botanicalart #fungi

Painting of a large clump of chicken of the woods mushrooms on a black background. The polypore mushrooms layer over each other and change from orange to yellow at the edges.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· May 19

I spent yesterday lounging in my garden and doing a few sketches #pleinair #botanicalart #art #sketch #tree

Sketch of plum tree trunk that died back and had to grow a new main trunk from a branch which then snapped but didn't die so is growing happily while strapped to its previous corpse. Trees are tough.

C.R. Gill Art@catalyst-artworks· May 8

A 3D piece I did for the Canadian Botanical Association Annual Meeting in June for the OSBA display in collaboration with the Museum of Nature. Yes, I know fungi aren't plants. #botanicalart #fungi #mushrooms #ottawa