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Gayle is a self-taught artist. She has studied under the guidance of many artists in watercolor, oil and experimental workshops. She is a signature member of the Colorado Watercolor Society and the Western Colorado Watercolor Society and is a member of the National Collage Society, and the Rocky Mountain Collage Society and Art Space. She teaches experimental mixed media classes at the Art Center in Grand Junction, Colorado and does contract workshops. She shows her work at Oakley Gallery on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado and her art is in many private and public collections.
f I could, I would load all my artwork with as many cultural, literary, and historical references as possible so to place the work on the continuum of time. I think about the comedian, Steven Wright’s, surreal comment that God invented time so everything wouldn’t happen all at once. With that in mind, I have become a layerist, laying on piece upon piece of paper, ephemera, copies of photographs, newspapers, advertisements, and whatnot as an underlayer to my work so to record many things happening at once. By using this process with whatever subject matter I pursue, my aim is to create a cultural record, a reference to what is happening now as I work.
Publications
- Cover Art: “Enchanted Forest” for 2011 UNESCO Report on World Heritage Forests
- Watercolor Artist Magazine February 2009 Featured artist in Hunting and Gathering Article
- The Palette Magazine – #20 December 2006 Artwork featured in Still-Life Article
Education
- MA in School Counseling 1995 Adams State College Alamosa Colorado
- BA in Secondary Education – English 1970 SUNY at Albany Albany, New York
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