Weisfield, Gayle

GAYLE’S ARTISTIC JOURNEY began as a small child on the family ranch overlooking Mt. Hood in the Columbia River Gorge. It was there that Gayle developed her love for country life, and Western painting. In 2018 Gayle followed her “artist dream” and now lives and works from her historic Adobe home in New Mexico, near the San Francisco Asis Church, which Georgia O’Keefe, Ansel Adams and the Taos Society of Artists, among others, painted into American history.
Graduating from the University of Washington, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Gayle interprets her subject in a bold, wet-n-wet watercolor style, using artistic intuition, and passion, to translate her subjects into powerful paintings described as impressionistic realism. Gayle is passionate about traveling the world, when she is home, she is teaching art or renovating historic buildings. In the last few years her art and sense of adventure has taken Gayle to Egypt, Turkey, Greece, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia, Jordan, Morocco, Europe, Hawaii, Mexico, Guatemala and all over the Western United States 

Notable Awards and Achievements
2022       Signature American Watermedia International Exhibition
2022       Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, Award of Excellence in Water Media 2021
2021       Pike’s Peak Watercolor International Show award; Judges Choice
2019       Fallbrook Art Center, Signature AWS National Show, Judges Choice
2016       Old West Museum, Western Spirit Juried Show, Best Watercolor
2015       International Watercolor Society, Watercolor West Show, Judge’s Choice
2013       Texas Watercolor Society, National Annual Exhibition, Honorable Mention
2011       Georgia Watercolor Society, National Juried Competition, Qoro Award

Selected Publications
Taos Magazine, New Mexico
Watercolor Artist Magazine, competition back panel
Southwest Art, Artistic Excellence
Splash 11: New Directions

Memberships
Northwest Watercolor Society
Missouri Watercolor Society
Taos Art Museum, “Fechin House” Taos Watercolor Society

Gallery Representation
Western Skies Gallery- Ranchos de Taos, NM

www.gayleweisfield.com

 

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