Gillian Coulton’s work is an ever-evolving conversation with the rural landscape and contemporary painting. Coulton grew up on a farm in Treaty 6 territory and is now lives and works in both Treaty 6 and 7 territories. Coulton received her MFA from the University of Calgary.

Gillian Coulton’s artistic practice primarily deals with memory and the ways in which our emotions can connect themselves to and alter our perceptions of the landscapes which we have inhabited. Stylistically the artist’s work focuses on realism as a means of conveying an idea of potential (but undefined) narrative and place, in combination with compositions which bring a certain strangeness through unnatural size, perspective, superimposition of elements, and expressive uses of paint.