Gill has received two Connecticut Individual Artist Grants, is a California Arts Council Fellow and in 2005 he received the Artist Resource Trust, from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. The results are colored, nuanced shapes-mesmerizing impressions of the structural integrity hidden inside each tree. Also featured are Gill's series of printed lumber and offcuts, such as burls, branches, knots, and scrubs. When printing with many colors, viscosity, opacity, and translucency are very important and I sometime feel like a mad scientist.

The wood, mostly northern white pine and hemlock was cut from the property and milled to my specification at a wood mill right up the street.I not only create objects but love collecting objects, these two practices result in a studio that is visually overloaded. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Woodcut will appeal to anybody who appreciates the grandeur and mystery of trees, as well as those who work with wood and marvel at the rich history embedded in its growth. BNG: I had a studio in New York City for a summer and had exhausted the money I received from a California drawing fellowship grant.

So when I speak of,” beyond the landscape”, I am referring to your own landscape, or more simply, “it is whatever you imagine. I visit a few bone yards that are filled with discarded trees, and friend’s occasional point me in the direction of a newly cut tree. I send a LOT of snail mail, several letters a day, so I have a large collection of cards and these are in my Top 3 for certain. Most of his woodcuts were created from dead or damaged tree parts that he collected and took to his studio to prepare cross-sections of the wood for relief printing. Its engagement is to understand his place in this world in this time, which he has to participate as a record of his connection to it.

Some found objects find their way into a piece and others into the trash; depending on how long I’ve been staring at them.

Although Gill began his art career in glassblowing, ceramics and landscape drawing, he gradually turned to sculpture.BNG: Dendrology, the study of trees, a science that has given us historical data about our global environment and forever-changing climate.