Gillian was born on November 22, 1993 in Arlington, Texas. From a very young age, she showed an interest in art and learned to work with a variety of art forms including pencil, pens, charcoal, acrylic paint, watercolor, oil and chalk pastels, and calligraphy.  She also has traveled to the UK multiple times, Sweden, and many states throughout the United States. When her Dad bought an Olympus camera, she instantly fell in love with photography after trying his camera out. In 2008, she attended Nolan Catholic High School which offered photography courses to Juniors and Seniors. However, she was a Freshman at the time. After showing the photography teacher her work, she became the first underclassmen accepted into the class which opened up the class to future interested underclassmen. This pushed her to photograph weddings, senior portraits, prom, family portraits, sports, and fine art for clients and under primary photographers. Throughout high school, she won many photography and theatre awards. She began working for her high school’s theatre as a freshman where her positions included usher, running crew member, paint crew member, costume designer, t-shirt designer, program designer, house manager, photographer, backdrop painter, and set designer. She won four Betty Lynn Buckley awards for her excellence in costume and set design. After starting college at the University of North Texas in 2012, she joined UNT’s Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team called Envy. For her third and fourth year of college, her team elected her to co-captain Envy. For the spring semester of her junior year, UNT and the University of Roehampton accepted her applications to study abroad in London. There she joined a mixed Ultimate Club team located in London called Flump. After her study abroad experience, she returned to Texas to finish out the rest of her college experience at UNT. She also was accepted into Temptress, a Women’s club team, and to intern under the wedding photographer, Michelle Peyronet. Both are based in the Dallas, Fort Worth area. Her experiences with friends, family, Ultimate Frisbee, traveling, and classes taught her a lot regarding life. They shaped her as a person and influenced her art. Her artwork represents personal memories by using natural photographic distortions and mixed media to create dream like imagery.