Gillian McDonald : Presence in Time
In this exhibition, Gillian McDonald evokes the ancient standing stones of Pembrokeshire as luminous thresholds between history and imagination.
Gillian's paintings rise from the same ancient ground that anchors Pembrokeshire’s standing stones—silent sentinels that have watched over the land for millennia. These monoliths, shaped by time and human devotion, serve as vessels of memory and myth. In Gillian’s work, they become points of stillness in a living landscape, connecting the rhythms of the earth to the enduring pulse of creativity.
Her layered mixed-media surfaces echo the textures of weathered stone—eroded, luminous, and charged with quiet authority. Each composition invites the viewer to stand in that threshold between presence and absence, where the stones speak not through language but through resonance.
This exhibition explores the dialogue between permanence and transformation: how ancient forms continue to shape the imagination, and how landscape holds the imprint of those who first sought meaning in its vastness. Gillian’s art invokes the standing stones not merely as relics, but as living presences—guardians of light, time, and the shared human impulse to create.
