Joe Gill is a twenty three year old artist from York. He has recently graduated from an illustration degree at the University of Brighton, and has moved back home to York to continue his work as an artist. In the last two years soft pastel has been his medium of choice, using them to create atmospheric images of historic English architecture and scenery. His work is inspired by English history and culture, as well as foreign artistic influences like the French impressionists, tonalist landscape painters, and the American realists, such as John Atkinson Grimshaw, Monet, Degas, Caspar Friedrich, Andrew Wyeth, Hopper, and Albert Goodwin. This love of history and tradition comes from growing up in York, one of the best preserved medieval cities in England.