www.GladArt.net Website Design by Gail Vass and all Watercolor
Art Copyright 2010-
My career as an artist began when I made the bold statement at 5 years old, “I’m going to be an artist!”
For many years after completing my art education in commercial art in 1976, I worked as a graphic artist. My earliest years began at Jesus People Church of Minneapolis in publications. It was very unique in the way God led me there. After the birth of my first son, I began freelancing for major advertising agencies and studios such as Snyders, Holiday stores, Fingerhut Corp. and more. I also designed logos for Ford Dealerships and many other companies and leading Christian ministries. Some of my other design work included advertising pieces, hand lettering and signage, illustrations and caricatures. This was all before the intrusion of computers and did a lot of technical pen work and illustration. Commissioned house portraits in watercolor and ink for private customers and commercial contractors were also in my agenda. For ten years, I published a Christian women’s newsletter and magazine called, “Gleanings” that was distributed throughout the United States and overseas until God changed my whole path into something new...fine art in watercolor painting ! In all my years previously, fine art was of no interest or value to me. But it’s definitely what I love doing now, although my creative juices in graphic design are still being used. Entering my paintings in juried exhibitions is a new thing for me and am stepping my way slowly into it.
I have operated my own gallery in Mound and Maple Plain, Minnesota and represented at Gallery W in Long Lake, MN. My works have sold locally and nationally.
My goal is to paint with the inspiration God gives me to uplift the viewers’ hearts through the wildlife that I love. I aim my brush into the deep well of living watercolor !
BEST OF SHOW
“Finches to the Feast”
Awarded at MNWS
Spring Juried 2011
Exhibition