GJ Gillespie Artist

GJ Gillespie Artist GJ Gillespie is a collage artist living in a 1928 farmhouse overlooking Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island

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08/31/2026

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The editors of 3Elements Review have chosen "Bite" by GJ Gillespie for publication in Issue 52.
"Bite" by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage. 23 x 17. 2017.
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August 30, 2026
Dear GJ,
Thank you for sending us "Bite." We absolutely love it and would like to publish it in the upcoming issue of 3Elements Review!
By agreeing to let us publish your piece, you are agreeing to the usage right terms, which can be viewed here... Please feel free to email us with any questions at [email protected]. Congratulations!
Sincerely, 3Elements Review
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This is my sixth appearance in 3Elements Review, following "Colors of the Night" (Issue 30, February 2021), "Forget All Your Troubles Forget All Your Cares" (Issue 43, Summer 2024), "Nest" (Issue 44, Winter 2025), "Shadowfax" (Issue 49, 2025), and "Do the Loco Motion" (Issue 51, 2026).
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Gorky Dreaming by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media on paper.
08/31/2026

Gorky Dreaming by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media on paper.

"Blinded by the Light" by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage on paper.
08/30/2026

"Blinded by the Light" by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage on paper.

A DIFFERENT KIND OF CREATIVE WORKMost of what shows up here is collage on canvas, but creativity doesn't stay in one lan...
08/30/2026

A DIFFERENT KIND OF CREATIVE WORK
Most of what shows up here is collage on canvas, but creativity doesn't stay in one lane. This fall I'm on stage instead of at the easel. The Shawshank Redemption opens at Whidbey Playhouse September 11, and here's a glimpse behind the walls.

πŸ“· Warden Stammas sizes up Red at his parole interview, quoting scripture while he decides a man's fate.

πŸ“· Andy, arm still in a sling from a beating, sits across from Stammas as the warden recruits him for a very particular kind of job.

πŸ“· The warden goes through the books, the real ones, and the ones built to fool the auditors.

πŸ“· Years later, Andy finally snaps, grabbing the warden by the collar after Stammas refuses to help him prove his innocence and threatens to bury him in solitary.

Four men, one office, and a story about what it costs to hold onto hope in a place built to take it away.

🎭 September 11 – October 4, 2026
πŸ“ Whidbey Playhouse, Oak Harbor
🎟️ whidbeyplayhouse.com

PEACHES EN REGALIA: LOST LAKE FOREST, WHISTLER, BC CANADAMixed media collage on canvas. 23.5 x 29.5 x .5. 2026.Title aft...
08/27/2026

PEACHES EN REGALIA: LOST LAKE FOREST, WHISTLER, BC CANADA
Mixed media collage on canvas. 23.5 x 29.5 x .5. 2026.

Title after "Peaches en Regalia," a 1969 instrumental by Frank Zappa, also the name of a trail near Lost Lake in Whistler.

Based on sketches made in the dense forests of cross country ski trails around Lost Lake. Part of Gillespie's Northwest Mystics series, the stacked, close-cropped trunks owe something to Emily Carr, the early 20th-century Canadian painter who packed a BC old-growth stand tight against the picture plane until it felt alive, reaching for the same presence of God in nature she came to see in her later work.

Built from spray paint, acrylic and oil paint, found papers, crossword puzzles, custom-dyed cloth, tissue, cheesecloth, graphite and ball point pen.

WORK IN PROCESS: "Peaches en Regalia: Lost Lake Forest, Whistler, BC Canada. More to come.
08/25/2026

WORK IN PROCESS: "Peaches en Regalia: Lost Lake Forest, Whistler, BC Canada. More to come.

"Nowhere Man" by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage on paper.
08/23/2026

"Nowhere Man" by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage on paper.

"I've Got You Under My Skin" by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage on paper. 22 x 17.
08/22/2026

"I've Got You Under My Skin" by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage on paper. 22 x 17.

SMOKE ON THE WATER*by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage. 22 x 17. 2016. Made with newspaper clippings, house paint, acry...
08/15/2026

SMOKE ON THE WATER*
by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage. 22 x 17. 2016. Made with newspaper clippings, house paint, acrylic, spray paint, found papers and tissue. Inspired by Northwest Mystic Kenneth Callahan.

The title comes from Deep Purple's 1972 rock classic. This piece sold at Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds during the Northwest Collage Society's 2017 Winter Show, "Collaged Impressions," and went on to be published in Camas, the University of Montana's literary magazine, in August 2021.

Great Cloud by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage on paper.
08/14/2026

Great Cloud by GJ Gillespie. Mixed media collage on paper.

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