I love working with copper. I like to think that I am creating impressions of history etched into each piece. The surface intrigues me, because it is the foundation from which my works are developed. My vision is influenced by various foliages that each season brings forth. Watching what emerges during the process is exciting to me, because the end result is always unique and never the same. The excitement of color, dimension and texture has always been a connecting chord of my work.

Working with an uncooperative substance can be very challenging when balancing the manipulation between the material and atmospheric elements. My process is internal, while the imagery is derived from memories living in the woods on Cape Cod. I find myself returning to the solitude of the forests and wilderness for inspiration. My present environment takes me on a journey through the mountains of La Quinta, CA. I find this landscape an inspirational palette of sculptural forms which I hope to create.

To honour trees is to grasp life.........

"They are constantly occupying my thoughts".....Van Gogh

Biography
Gail Taylor grew up in New England. Though not far from Boston, she lived outside the city in a wooded area where she developed a lifelong love of nature, which has always been at the base of her artistic work.

As a teenager she learned from her aunt, who was very creative, and how to make wreaths from natural products found in the woods. However, the greatest influence in her younger years was her mother, who taught her self-reliance and imbued her with a strong work ethic.

As an adult she lived in various parts of the US, finally settling for many years in Diamond Bar, California. There she attended Chaffey College, raised a family and worked at floral design. Also, during this period, she rented one of the stone cottages formerly utilized to house migrant workers at the Fillipi Winery in Guasti and converted it
to her art studio. Here she devoted herself to painting and drew support and inspiration from other painters and sculptors who also had studios at the winery. Some of those artists are still among her closest friends even now.

Then came the unexpected.

One day, a merchant in Guasti gave her a generous supply of surplus copper sheeting. She had learned a little about etching on copper at Chaffey, so she took the copper sheets, bought some acid and other
supplies, and started experimenting. Today, Gail is a well established artist with an extraordinary body of work that combines her love of nature, as expressed in so many of her designs, with a stunning and exciting amalgam of color, texture and composition. She has created a genre of her own.

Gail now maintains a studio in the desert near the Santa Rose Mountains, where the strong sun and the desert colors have added a new dimension - not only to her art itself, but also to the technique and the processes. In the extreme heat of the Coachella Valley her materials behave differently. Fortunately for art-lovers everywhere,
Gail, applies herself daily to her craft, working outside, in temperatures over 100F. Always on the quest for something new and different and even more exciting.

Gail Taylor's prolific works can be found in galleries around the country, in private and corporate collections, estates of private patrons, and in contemporary interiors.