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Artist Statement:
My biggest thrill as an artist
is to evoke emotion from you.
I love the drama of light
raking across a vase, a face,
a nude back, the folds of
cloth, or the peel of an
orange. When I paint I want to
stop time on the canvas and
set before you a fleeting
second that becomes
transcendent and timeless. I
see in the ever-changing
landscape myriads of colors,
shapes, folds, and these are
breathtaking when looked upon
closely. My paintings range
across several subjects:
landscapes, still life,
portraits, but they all start
at that same place, that
moment when the flicker of
light in a shadowed eye
transmits a unique look in a
portrait, or the way the
banana peel lies, folded back
upon itself, never to be that
way again, or the clouds as
they pile up on each other on
a summer’s day radiating the
full spectrum of color through
the prism of the atmosphere. I
want to grab you with color
and light and make you laugh,
cry, or even get angry when
you view one of my paintings.
I am rooted in realism, both
Impressionism and more
academic painting as well,
although I ...
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Gainor Roberts Biography:
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Age
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68
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Widow
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Graduate Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Photography, computers, technology, |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Tempera
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I always was an artist...I just didn't call it that when I was a toddler with my crayons and paints. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Gainor Roberts moved to Zephyrhills in 2001 from Rhode Island where she taught painting classes and had a gallery in the small town of Westerly. Art has been a passion with Gainor for most of her life, and she can remember drawing pictures as a toddler and feigning illness to stay home from school and draw pictures all day.
She considers herself a realist painter and has been greatly influenced by the Impressionists. She studied painting at the Art Students’ League, in New York, with Robert Brackman and later at the National Academy of Design and Lyme Academy of Fine arts, studying painting, drawing and sculpture. Her paintings are characterized by her love affair with color and design, and she frequently uses fruits and vegetables as subject matter, although she loves to paint a wide variety of subject matter, including portraits of people and animals.
Her mediums are oil, watercolor, pastel, egg tempera and monotype. Her love of art is reflected by a love of traditional artist materials and techniques although she is familiar with and has great affection for many contemporary artists and their mediums. Her subjects are still life, landscape, symbolic still life paintings, and portraits. She conducts classes and workshops in painting and drawing and travels to many communities in Florida and New England to give workshops and classes. She sometimes works with students privately as well. She has exhibited her work widely in New England and more recently in the Tampa Bay area and has had several solo shows, including a 50-year Retrospective of her work in the fall of 2005 at Horizon Line Gallery in Temple Terrace.
She is a member of many art organizations including the Egg Tempera Society, the American Impressionist Society, The Society of Exhibiting Artists, TESA (The Exhibiting Society of Artists), The Monotype Guild of New England (honorary member), North Tampa Arts League, Florida Plein Air Society, The Florida Committee for National Museum for Women in the Arts, and is an Artist Member of the National League of American Pen Women.
Her paintings and portraits are in many private collections.
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