Gillian Keightley started a company painting murals and hand painted roller blinds painting over a hundred murals. Clients included the Pyrford Court music room, a Majilis ceiling for a United Arab Emirates Sheik, The Sultan of Muscat and Oman and numerous hotel reception rooms in Spain. Hand painted and printed blinds were supplied to designers and stores in major stores throughout the UK, New York and Los Angeles. Gillian also worked in the theatre, on film sets and photographer’s studios painting sets and backgrounds. She also taught at Wycliffe College and lectured at Panjim Directorate of Art and Culture, Goa.
Education: Skegness Grammar School.
Gloucestershire college of Art
Goldsmith’s College
Royal College of Art
Selected Solo Shows:
1995 Ogle Street Gallery. London
1997 Guildhall Arts Centre. Gloucester.
1998 Ruskin MIll. Nailsworth. ( every year until 2002)
1999 Wycliffe College . Stonehouse. Glos
2000 Peter Lavery studio. London
2003 Simpson and Jones. Tetbury. Glos
2007 Ruskin MIll . Nailsworth. Glos
2010 Facebook & Other Paintings: 17th-29th April – Ruskin Mill. Glos
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1997 Cheltenham Group, Cheltenham.
1998 Stroud House Gallery. Stroud.
2002 Hodge, Cripps and Keightley. Ruskin Mill. Nailsworth.
2003 Wycliffe Exhibition. Stroud Museum. Glos.
2007 5 x Severn. Wool Barn. Frampton on Severn. Glos.
2013 Carpe Diem. Goa. India
2014 St. Mary’s Church. Frampton on Severn. Lent exhibition.