A country girl from Yorkshire, I taught Special Needs in UK before migrating to WA with my young family in 1988, and establishing our Gidgegannup goat dairy. Retiring from farming has enabled me to study art, belatedly, through TAFE and OUA, and to combine my two passions – Art and Nature – into a useful working whole.
I have refined my art practice into two streams – working in pencil & watercolour, or in pastels, for my detailed botanical and wildlife studies, and in oils for my larger statement pieces. All my work is based on inhabitants of my home range, around Albany WA.
By portraying the fragile beauty of this world, whilst highlighting the extinction crisis now decimating our eco-systems & native species, I aim to spotlight exactly what we are so rapidly losing. Inertia, complacency, and the overall global lack of political will, is costing us dearly. Through my art, I hope to provoke every one of us into taking direct, personal action to help ensure a sustainable & ecologically balanced future – for Planet A… and for ourselves.
I now sell my artwork largely through my Albany studio, by appointment, and online through my website. Alongside the original paintings, I produce smaller items – photographic prints and cards etc – and gemstone jewellery: see https://gailsgallery.weebly.com/store/c1/Online_Store#/
I am also active in Albany Art Group and Phoenix Fine Arts, and exhibit regularly with both – please see my website or Facebook Page for details.
