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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 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 is a member of many art organizations including the Egg Tempera Society, the American Impressionist Society, The Society of Exhibiting Artists, TESA (secretary of the board of directors) Monotype Guild of New England (honorary member), South Pasco Artworks, Florida Plein Air Society, National Museum for Women in the Arts, and North Tampa Art League. Her paintings and portraits are in many private collections.
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44"X32" Monotype $500 |
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