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