About Gail...
Gail's work reflects what she loves: the people, wildlife, and place in which she lives. Much of her subject matter lies
in the fields and woods surrounding her Colorado home, but her subjects are sometimes from places farther away, like the churches
of Santa Fe or the crowded streets of France. If you browse the watercolors on these pages, you might even find a stray family
of polar bears (not known to be native to Colorado, but aren't they sweet?). Nearby you'll see a portrait of the elusive fox
that haunts Gail's backyard, and a Colorado cowboy tipping his hat, and--one of my personal favorites--a grove of aspen trees
standing in light snow in the hazy purple dusk. These paintings bring the ordinary into focus, draw your attention to what
is beautiful and what is essential in it, and show you that the ordinary is not so ordinary after all.
The art of
painting is in this revealing - in drawing out what is essential, in showing you a vision of the world through the painter's
eye. In a sense, with each painting, Gail is saying, "This is what I see here. This is what makes this horse beautiful to
me," or, "This is what it means to be a bison, carrying your coat and standing taciturn under a layer of winter snow." Sometimes
these perceptions can be described in words, but they are most easily conveyed by the pictures themselves.
Tor
Wager
Gail Wager, self portrait
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A Business:
Gail never really intended to sell her paintings. In fact, she was rather shy about them. Working busily in the laundry
room of her mountain home, Gail's sole intent was to learn to use paint in a way that would express a person, animal, or view
as she saw it.
As Gail's passion grew like wildflowers in the spring, we noticed that she became a little bit less
available for (family) consulting purposes. Rather, she was busy working to develop a skill that would allow her to build
landscapes with the stroke of a hand.
By popular demand, Gail began to sell cards, prints, originals, and commissioned
paintings. Her husband, Ralph, diligently aided her in technical areas including data management, printing, matting, and framing.
Brook Wager
Tor and Brook offered emotional support (to each other!)
About this site...
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