Gitta Gillan

This is Dr. Gitta Gillan from Guildford, Surrey, she teaches the Science of Colours and Hues at the University of Surrey (formerly the "Battersea Polytechnic Institute"). I met Gitta on a bench, in Piazza Santa Croce, one Sunday afternoon when " ... the sun pours down like honey on our Lady of the Harbour ... "  she was frantically looking for something. Extremely bright and one of the foremost experts in her field (briefly an assistant to Dr. Khandekar, at Harvard) Gitta is well-advanced in her current project to prove that canaries (Serinus Canaria) when fed a mixture of enough seeds of Passiflora Edulis, beer, and eggshells, will eventually turn mauve! Once her work is published, the colour-world will be turned upside-down. Her biggest problem in life is that she constantly loses stuff (her phone four times last year, wallet, keys, you name it Gitta forgot where she put it). The one thing she clearly remembers losing was her virginity (at fourteen, in the back of her father's vintage 1966 Studebaker).