Gail Evans

Raised in Maryland, the ocean and waterways are close to my heart. In the early 1970’s I moved to Colorado having fallen in love at first sight with the Mountains, forests, canyons and all she holds. While living on the Eastern Slope, I had the opportunity to work at Ed Dwight Studios chasing waxes for bronze statues. By early 1990’s I moved to the Western Slope. Seeing Mt. Garfield brought chills, impressing me as a sacred Mount. The high desert has captured my heart and imagination with its rugged contours and brilliant colors enhanced by beautiful sunrises and sunsets. The Western Slope affords infinite subject matter.

I am basically self-taught in art, learned to draw on my own, public school art plus a few focused classes in high school, a few art classes at Colorado Mountain College, Leadville then dabbling throughout life on my own in various mediums.

Becoming fascinated with brilliant color after a class using bright poster colors led me to seek a medium of flowing, vibrant color. By 2014 I learned of a silk painting class offered by Mary Hertert at her then Color Creek Fiber Arts shop/ studio in Grand Junction. The sessions were a joyful dive into the processes, techniques and art of silk painting. Within a few weeks, Mary offered that I could come and paint in exchange for helping her in the studio, cleaning, organizing and more. I am forever grateful. By 2017 Color Creek closed and a studio for me was created at home. I have taken silk painting to fine art having found and developed new techniques of painting with dyes on a variety of silks, and conservation processes for mounting and framing.