Figurative painter and draughtsman, born in Norfolk, who studied landscape architecture at Cheltenham and Gloucester College. He was one of a large creative family, his mother being the social critic Victoria Gillick, his twin brother the sculptor Theodore Gillick, and he showed early talent, painting commissioned portraits while still at school. For Gillick, “what the eye sees, the heart loves and the mind absorbs”; single objects had “a life in themselves that is breathtaking”; and flesh was “the ultimate challenge”. The artist unusually made all his own materials, such as canvases, panels, stretchers, oils, glues, waxes, varnishes and paints. Group shows included Eastern Open, 1996; Catto Gallery, 1996–8; Montpellier Gallery, Cheltenham, 1996–01; A Dealer’s Eye, Jonathan Cooper, 2000; and Spencer Coleman Galleries, Stamford, Lincoln and Beverley, 2001–01.