gail watson

Gail Watson began making art as a BFA candidate in ceramics at the State University of New York at New Paltz and coursework included photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, lapidary and metalsmithing. She graduated with a B.S. in Visual Arts in 1979.

 

After moving to Colorado, she enrolled in the University of Colorado at Denver to begin an MFA but did not complete a degree. A chance meeting with a letterpress printer led to a grant from the Colorado Council on the Arts to learn the art of printing on her 1887 Pearl platen press. Now an established book artist working in one of a kind and edition artists’ books, her work is in university and private collections across the country.

In 2006 she began working in pastels + foil on wood, represented by Art & Soul in Boulder from 2010 to 2018. She works out of her home studio and press room on the Peak to Peak Scenic Byway in Gilpin County.

A selection of Watson’s work from three of her current series will be exhibited in the Helen Thatcher White Galleries.

 

Sense of Place: based on the longitude and latitude of my home in the Rockies and future home the Catskills after 46 years in Colorado.

 

BOOM: work based on the artifacts created by Jack Leg drilling contests as found in abundance in Leadville. 

 

Electrons + Labyrinths: My focus on spheres, circles, targets and suns and moons led to the imagery of an imagined electron and then onto historic labyrinth patterns.