Whilst my paintings are mostly inspired by the Sussex landscapes I see around me, I reflect any landscape or seascape I have ever visited. My painting style fuses magical, colourful and ethereal elements along with Impressionist, semi-abstract, Art Nouveau and something I term ‘Memory Impressionism’. This is where I go walking somewhere rural, look at and absorb the things I see and experience, and then come home and try to capture an 'echo' of the place from memory, including any wildlife I may have seen.

My paintings reflect, for me, the spiritual echoes of beautiful places such as those in Sussex and the English countryside generally and it always fascinates me what emerges on to a canvas from a simple memory. All of them have a story attached and are named once I have completed the painting and can see more clearly what the story is!

I completed a fine art degree in Brighton in 1983 and I have painted since I was three. I love what I do and consider myself very fortunate to have found a way to ‘work’ for a living that is actually really playing. 

Painting always makes me happy along with cake, bunnies, driving erratically, BBC 6 music and totally irreverent comedy. 

See me in Episode 12, Season 2 of Home Is Where The Art Is HERE (if not currently showing on BBC iPlayer)

Follow me on Instagram to see regular posts and updates and work in progress: gill.bustamante.artist

See my YouTube Channel for demos and insights into some of these paintings.

The first gallery above shows original paintings currently for sale, the second shows landscape, seascape and fish prints for sale and the third shows nature and animals landscape prints for sale. Click on the picture or title to see the range.

You are very welcome to visit me and view some of my current paintings, please contact me to make an appointment. (Forest Row, East Sussex).

​Although I sell my artwork on a few selected online galleries I offer a 20% discount on all original art purchased from me directly. Contact  artist@gillbustamante.com

You can also see my large original oil paintings shop and a smaller selection of prints for sale on my ETSY store SussexPaintings

And finally you can see a large selection of my affordable watercolour paintings for sale in my ETSY shop WatercoloursForSale . The proceeds from sales of my watercolours go to support causes such as Drug Free World and other humanitarian causes (see My Causes page)