Potent Palette Artist Gail Hurt
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Artist Statement
ARTIST STATEMENT
GAIL LODGE HURT
PROFESSIONAL Artist and illustrator
INTRODUCTION
“Hello my name is Gail and I’m a professional Artist, Lecturer, illustrator and demonstrator.
Nature has always been a vehicle for artists throughout time,where I asked to describe my art work I would say its a partnership with nature, which over the years has matured and evloved into a harmonious relationship with a deep emotion that is channelled through my art. I love to keep hold and grasp the passing light that appears through a storm, beginning of a day or the end, from season to season.
I take my inspiration at times from what could only be determined as bleak, raw, desolate places, to stunningly beautiful land and seascapes drenched and nourished in delicious light.”
MY TIMELINE
1985
Gail changed direction from a part time artist and office worker to working out doors, sketching painting with supporting photography, absorbing landscape, seascape and nature.
1985-2002
Gail worked as a professional artist, exhibiting in New York, The Paris Salon and various places in the U.K. whilst running art classes.
Gail also produced illustration work for Image by design and Hall Mark Cards.
“I love bringing life to creative ideas and projects of all sorts. “
2005 Gail worked as an art and design lecturer at The Sheffield College until 2015. This very short history leads to the present day where she spend days and weeks with her husband, a graphic designer, and their two small dogs Shan and Boo in areas of the peak district and North Yorkshire coast absorbing the colour mood and texture which warms her heart and finds it’s way onto the canvas. In between time Wildlife and fur babes are also brought to life with professional pencils on Pastelmat and Fabriano papers.
2002-2015
Gail gained the Certificate of Education at a level 5 and taught Post 16 Art and Graphic Design at The Sheffield College.
2016-onward left
After leaving college Gail has returned to her first love, her painting career once more. Commissions undertaken with regular updates of work posted on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and www.deviantart/ghurt1952. Enquiries…
phone, text or email
Take a look at my sketchbook...
These are a few of my most recent sketches scribbled in Derbyshire, North Yorkshire moors and coast; Staithes, Whitby and Sandsend.
Nature offers an amazing change in our Land and Seascapes, great inspiration portrayed on canvas using Acrylic…visit my gallery
We travel up and down the North Yorkshire and Northumbria coast in our motorhome. Taking in directly the beauty and sometimes the rawness of nature. I take sketches and photos as the canvases I mostly use are too big to painting in situ.
and now meet the family
My husband Steve Hurt comes from a creative back ground studying graphic design at Harrogate college in 1970
He has worked as a lecturer in art and design within further education since 1975. From 1983-2013 Steve has also delivered Cert.Ed and PGCE Post 16 teacher training courses. He has also acted as a visiting lecturer at Sheffield University delivering contextual studies.
His specialist areas are graphic design, design history, photography and merchandising.
Dad...Walter Lodge
My Dad mainly painted oil on canvas, portraits, landscapes and restoration of old masters. He restored a magnificent ceiling at Wortley Hall, Wortley, near Sheffield. The ceiling was gold with parrots and goldfish in bowls. Later on both Dad and I were up scaffolding in the new bar area at Wortley Hall restoring another ceiling by repainting the existing dragons. Unfortunately Dad is no longer with me but my inheritance from him of creativity, his memory and his passion for art still lives on in his paintings and in my heart.
Thanks Dad.
PET PORTRAITS …
fur babes are a delight to capture using coloured pencils such as Faber Castell Polychromos, Luminance, Derwent, all are light fast and archival.
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