Last updated: 28 October 2026
Gill Rocca is the British artist who paints imagined, empty landscapes in thin glazes of oil, often on small birch ply panels and round tondos. Here you will find our take on her work, where to see Gill Rocca now, how to buy one of her paintings, and her two small oils in this year’s War Child auction.
Our take on Gill Rocca
Rocca paints places that do not quite exist. Her landscapes are dusky and quiet, with a low sun, a moon or a line of trees, and never a person in sight. She builds them slowly in thin oil glazes over sanded gesso. “The landscapes I explore in my paintings are always uninhabited, solitary spaces, often familiar yet otherworldly,” she writes on her own site.
She has two pieces in the War Child sale, both oil on ply panel. Falling is a wide view of heavy grey cloud, with a small pale yellow sun just above a dark band of trees. Falling II turns the same idea upright. Here the sun is a deep orange disc, low in a smoky sky over a faint treeline. Together they read like two moments of the same dusk.
Her small panels have a following. She has shown in Flowers Gallery’s Small Is Beautiful every year since 2019, and both War Child lots had bids by 28 October. In addition, she has given paintings to charity sales for the National Brain Appeal and the Woodland Trust, so this is familiar ground for her.
Gill Rocca: the essentials
- Born in Lancashire in 1971; now based in South East London, according to her own site.
- Studied for a BA in Fine Art at the University of Leeds from 1990 to 1994, then an MA with distinction through Winchester School of Art in 1996, studying in Barcelona.
- Won the Hughie O’Donoghue Prize at the NOA in 2015.
- Selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2019, 2024 and 2026, and for the Columbia Threadneedle Prize and ING Discerning Eye.
- Known for her ongoing Figment series of round birch ply tondos.
- Represented by GBS Fine Art; her large works are in the collections of the Royal Bank of Canada, British Airways and McGraw Hill.
Where to see Gill Rocca now
- Coming up: Sound & Vision 2026, a War Child charity auction online from 27 October to 12 November 2026, with the works on view at Iconic Images Gallery, London, 6 to 8 November. The pieces are Falling and Falling II (both 2026), oil on ply panel, 21 x 15 cm (8.3 x 5.9 in), lot pages for Falling and Falling II.
- As If the Ground Remembered (group), Haricot Gallery, Camden, London, 3 September to 3 October 2026.
- Second Nature (group), Open Doors Gallery, Chalk Farm, London, 10 to 13 September 2026.
- Seeking New Landscapes (group), Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, 16 July to 8 August 2026.
- Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 16 June to 23 August 2026, where her small painting Myth III hung in Room V, as she notes on her news page.
How to buy a Gill Rocca painting
There are no Gill Rocca prints. GBS Fine Art sells her paintings, with prices on request, and two small oils are in the War Child sale:
- Shadow VII, 2026: oil on birch ply, 22 x 17 cm (8.7 x 6.7 in), price on request from GBS Fine Art.
- Figment CXXV, 2026: a round oil on birch ply, 30 cm (11.8 in) across, price on request from GBS Fine Art.
- Falling and Falling II, 2026: two small oils on ply panel in the War Child Sound & Vision auction, bidding from £100 until 12 November 2026 (bid here on Falling or Falling II).
Gill Rocca FAQs
Which gallery represents Gill Rocca?
GBS Fine Art, which shows her work at London Art Fair and Expo Chicago. She also shows regularly with Flowers Gallery in London.
What is Gill Rocca’s Figment series?
An ongoing series of imagined landscapes painted on round birch ply panels, or tondos, from 20 cm to 80 cm across.
Can I buy a Gill Rocca print?
Not at the moment. Her original paintings are available through GBS Fine Art, with prices on request.
Where can I see her work in London?
Her two War Child pieces are on view at Iconic Images Gallery from 6 to 8 November 2026. Flowers Gallery’s Small Is Beautiful, a show she has joined every year since 2019, runs from 20 November 2026.
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Main image: Gill Rocca in her studio, 2026. Courtesy the artist, via gillrocca.com. Cropped and framed by CoolCuration. Exhibition dates, prices, auction results and market figures last checked: 28 October 2026.
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