Gail’s paintings explore colour and light through a contemplation of natural forms. Gail was originally trained as a sculptor, exploring the play of light on sculptural form. As a painter she has refined this interest in light and form into the subjective representation of colour in landscape. The paintings are inspired by her work with plants in environmental garden design, and by the changing light, detail and wildness in landscapes and seascapes – whether Richmond Park, the north Cornish coastline, the coast and inlets of West Cork in Ireland or the South Downs and its crashing waves (Gail has recently moved to Brighton). Gail graduated in Fine Art, Sculpture from Portsmouth Polytechnic. She has run galleries and a fine art publishing company. She trained as a garden designer at Kew with John Brookes, and returned to painting full time in 2000.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
2022
Brighton Artist Open Houses
THE TAIT GALLERY
I'm opening my house for the first time with 4 other painters
https://aoh.org.uk/house/may2022/tait-gallery/
Number 3 on the Seven Dials trail
@taitgallery51
May 7/8 and 14/15 ONLY
Green Tree Gallery
February-May
https://www.greentreegallery.co.uk/
Past:
2021
Sussex Watercolour -Artwave Lewes
Call and Response - St .Augustines, Brighton.
2019
On The Waterfront- Artwave Lewes - Sussex Watercolour Society(Venue 18)
https://www.sussexwatercoloursociety.com/
17th August - 26th August
Brighton Art Fair at Lewes
Lewes Town Hall
Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December
https://www.brightonartfair.co.uk/artists/
2018
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition -Mall Galleries, London. 15 -25 November 2018
Green Tree Gallery 'The Other Summer Exhibition' 30 June - 1 September 2018
Artwave Lewes 'On the Waterfront' - Sussex Watercolour Society 24 August - 2 September
Artists Open Houses (Brighton Festival) YMCA -Hove Trail, Venue 9 -May 2018
2017
Artists and Illustrators Artists of the Year, Mall Galleries, London
'Artworks at the Oxmarket', Sussex Watercolour Society, Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester
Chalk Gallery, Lewes
Summer Salon, Martyrs Gallery, Lewes
Pelham House Open, Lewes
2016
Chalk Gallery, Lewes, Sussex
SWS Exhibition, Crypt Gallery, Seaford
Green Tree Gallery, Haywards Heath
2015
'MORE FRESH PAINT'
Sussex Watercolour Society at The Foundry, Lewes
Chalk Gallery at the Towner
Visiting exhibition at The Towner in Eastbourne, by Chalk Gallery
2014
'Brighton Art Fair', Brighton Dome, Brighton, Sussex
'Sense and Serendipity', The Grange Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton, Sussex
'Chalk Gallery', Lewes, Sussex
2013
'Chalk Gallery', Lewes, Sussex
‘Wolf at the Door’, Hove, Sussex
2012
‘Wolf at the Door’, Hove, Sussex
2011
Botanica Medica, St. Margarets
Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London
Retro Bistrot, Teddington
2010
Summer exhibition, Riverside Gallery, Barnes
Arthouse, Richmond
2009
Summer exhibition, Riverside Gallery, Barnes
Spring exhibition, Riverside Gallery, Barnes
2008
‘Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours’, The Mall Galleries, London
‘A Church and a View’, All Saints Parish Church, Kingston
2007
Arthouse, Richmond
Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London