GJ Gillespie Artist

10/13/2026

Angel of the Morning #8 by GJ Gillespie.

10/08/2026

"Mad World" by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage on paper. 12 x 8. Spray paint, tissue, and graphite. Title after 1982 song by Tears for Fears.

09/26/2026

09/25/2026

Wanderer by GJ Gillespie to be published in GRIST: A JOURNAL OF THE LITERARY ARTS

"Wanderer" by GJ Gillespie has been accepted to accompany a poem in the Grist journal.

"Wanderer" by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage. 16 x 12. 2026.

Dear Gary!

Thank you for submitting your beautiful collage work to Grist. I would be very interested in using your piece "Wanderer" to accompany a poem on the Grist website (gristjournal.com) in the coming months.

Thanks again for sharing your work with us,

Titus Chalk
Editor-in-Chief

09/17/2026

NEW PLAINS REVIEW
Hard copy recieved today!
"Crazy Diamond #6" by GJ Gillespie published in New Plains Review, the University of Central Oklahoma's literary journal.

"Crazy Diamond #6" by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage on board. 25 x 25 x 1.75. 2025.

Title after Pink Floyd's 1975 epic "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," an elegy for Syd Barrett, the band's visionary and troubled founder.

The sixth work in an ongoing series inspired by the biomorphic abstractions of Arshile Gorky, known as the Founder of Abstract Expressionism. Where Gorky dissolved the human figure into organic, liquid forms that exist between the recognizable and the abstract, the Crazy Diamond series pushes further into pure abstraction, the figure all but dissolved into color, texture, and layered material.

Built from found papers, tissue, acrylic, oil and spray paint, graphite, cloth, and grocery advertisements, with the Pink Floyd lyrics embedded in the undercoat, partly visible beneath the final layers.

This piece was exhibited at the Coupeville Public Library's Ethereal Journeys show in January 2026, and at the City of Burien Gallery Program's four-month solo exhibition at Merrill Gardens, June through September 2026, my largest show to date, featuring 58 works across nine storefront windows.

Publication: New Plains Review, University of Central Oklahoma, Winter 2025

09/16/2026

"I Who Have Nothing" by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage on paper.

09/15/2026

Desolations Row by GJ Gillespie

09/08/2026

SUNSPOT LITERARY JOURNAL
Honored to share that "Peaches en Regalia: Lost Lake Forest, Whistler, BC Canada" and "Angel Band" have been accepted for publication in Sunspot Literary Journal, my sixth appearance in this journal.

"Peaches en Regalia" takes its title from Frank Zappa's 1969 instrumental, also the name of a trail near Lost Lake, Whistler.

"Angel Band" takes its title from The Stanley Brothers' 1958 recording of the same name.

This is my 222nd publication in literary and art journals.

09/08/2026

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝟏𝟎-𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐇𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐭 (𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝)
By GJ Gillespie / September 8, 2026

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” – Pablo PicassoMost people who put down their sketchbook don’t quit because they lack talent. They quit because they set the bar too high. A goal like “draw every day for an hour” sounds motivating in January and feels impossible by February. The sketchbook ends up in a drawer, and picking it back up starts to feel like admitting failure.

The fix isn’t more discipline. It’s a smaller target.

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