ginger gilmour

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Ginger Gilmour is an artist with a particular vision. This vision has emerged from her life experience and the influence of many great teachers. The seed of this vision grew out of the integration of her eighteen years of marriage with Pink Floyd guitarist, David Gilmour ~ the raising of their four children and the inner longing to express her own creativity. Now what once was a seed flowers within her life, within her paintings and is allowed to be expressed in her exciting sculpture.
I seek to create artwork which is a interactive experience between my work, the viewer and their own creativity. For me, creativity is never solely concerned with creating a form to be observed but is a experience based upon the depths of one`s nature and its relationship to the world around us. I feel very strongly that we are more than what is visible~ that there lies innate within each of us such Beauty our eyes and heart has yet to Behold.
I seek to have my artwork to represent potentially a journey of return to the Joy of Living. With each sculpture or installation I explore the question of how much form is necessary to reflect this process~how much space~how much rhythm. Primarily, my work is all about the sacred within our relationships~the relationship with ourselves, our neighbour and mother nature. This vision is summarised in a quote from Rumi,
“Let the Beauty that we are, Be the Beauty that we do!”.
Sculptures by ginger gilmour
Credentials
Qualifications
September-June 1998-2002- Rudolf Steiner Sculpture studies, West Hoathley, West Sussex, England
September-June 1983-1990-Life drawing with Cecil Collins, City Lit, London, England
January 1989- 1991-Jungian analyst with Mrs Dr Adler, London
September-December 1988-1989-Jungian analyst with Dr Gerhard Adler, London
December- July 1988-Jungian analyst with Dr Werner Engel, NYC
September-June 1988-1995-Mental Colour Therapy with Lily Cornford; further teacher`s training; taught and practiced in center in Kilburn, Switzerland, Italy, Houston (USA) and in my home until present. Trustee of the Mental Colour School of Healing.
Michigan State University 1967-69 foundational course in Chemical Engineering and Art
High School Education 1962-1966 Wayne High School, Wayne, Michigan, USA-graduated Cum Laude
Primary Education 1954-1961-various elementary schools, USA.,September-June 1998-2002- Rudolf Steiner Sculpture studies, West Hoathley, West Sussex, England
September-June 1983-1990-Life drawing with Cecil Collins, City Lit, London, England
January 1989- 1991-Jungian analyst with Mrs Dr Adler, London
September-December 1988-1989-Jungian analyst with Dr Gerhard Adler, London
December- July 1988-Jungian analyst with Dr Werner Engel, NYC
September-June 1988-1995-Mental Colour Therapy with Lily Cornford; further teacher`s training; taught and practiced in center in Kilburn, Switzerland, Italy, Houston (USA) and in my home until present. Trustee of the Mental Colour School of Healing.
Michigan State University 1967-69 foundational course in Chemical Engineering and Art
High School Education 1962-1966 Wayne High School, Wayne, Michigan, USA-graduated Cum Laude
Primary Education 1954-1961-various elementary schools, USA.Exhibitions
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Awards
June 2007-Two Installations -Coming Together-Red Cross Gala Fund-raising Ball East Meets West: Main Installation-two stories high including suspended angel; Third year on committee; Received British Red Cross Award for Services to Humanity, Old Billingsgate, London, England
June 2006-Exhibition: Society of Woman`s Artists: three sculptures accepted; `Song of Woman` received Talisman award for sculpture; Mall Galleries, The Mall, London-www.society-women-artists.org.uk
May 2006-RHS Chelsea Flower Show-Stall; Sculptural Terrace Design: Received Certificate of Commendation for outstanding presentation, England.
Born and brought up in the USA. Ginger Gilmour moved to England in the early 1970`s. In 1975 she married David Gilmour, lead guitarist of Pink Floyd. During the next ten years she spent her life as a wife and the raising of her four children. While silently her creative artistic talent was developing in doing the stage sets for the children school plays and costumes and birthday parties.
Her first involvement with the creative and therapeutic benefits through the `Art of Creative Living` started with analysis in New York with Dr Werner Engel in the late 80`s. Under his advice, she continued in Jungian Therapy in London with Dr Gerhard Adler, and later, his wife until the early 90`s.
For over ten years she trained in life drawing with Cecil Collins at the City University of London, and in sculpture at the Rudolf Steiner Sculpture Studio in West Sussex. She is also a Mental Colour Therapist, training with Lily Cornford for over fifteen years. She has taught and practiced in England, Switzerland, Italy and in the USA.
Ginger Gilmour is a past Trustee of the Mental Colour Therapy School of Healing. In 2005 she was elected member to the fund-raising Committee of the Red Cross, for their `A Celebration of Humanity` Gala. She has received the `Ambassador of Peace` award in 2006 from the Universal Peace Foundation. In 2006 she was awarded the Certificate of Commendation for outstanding presentation at the CHELSEA RHS Flower Show. Then in 2007 she received a special award for `Services to Humanity` from the Red Cross International Fundraising Committee for her installation for the East Meets West Ball and her fund-raising. Ginger is also an associate member of the Society of Women Artists, London, UK.
Cecil Collins, Rudolf Steiner, Pre-Raphaelites, Arp, Brancusi, Blake, Frank Lloyd-Wright, Art Deco, Gaudi, Rodin, Dali, Redon.
NADFAS REVIEW-ART IN ACTION EVENT-SUMMER-The Human Touch
Art House-Q Magazine 2010>
Transformation-Yes we can-Kosmos Journal 2009
Celebration of Cecil Collins-Book of his work and students-2009
Sea of Passion-Kosmos Journal-Winter 2007
Sculpture Exhibition In Arundel Castle Gardens-West Sussex Gazette-Summer 2007
In Beauty-Kosmos Journal-2006
Dolphina-Arundel Festival-West Sussex Gazette-Summer 2006
Plantlife-Summer 2006-`BBC Gardeners` World Live`-RHS Silver Gilt/Sarah Eberle/Hilliers Landscape/Ginger Gilmour-Sylph Reeds
Hidden in the Sussex countryside-Sussex Life-
March 2005
Home is where the Art is-Article in the Independent-September 28, 05
Art as a Spiritual Direction- `Kindred Spirit Magazine` September 05
Where Angels are always pleased to tread-Little Hampton Gazette-Aug 19, 2004
Art with an Incredible Lightness of Being-`Observer`-April 23, 2003.
Thirteen panels for Set of Ballet, Labour of Hercules, Multi-media event, 2005; lecture on my Creative process.
