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| The following is from The Taos Gallery Scottsdale:
GAIL COPELAND
Living in Waco, Texas
Copelands mediums for her western paintings are Oil, and Pencil. She was raised in Houston, Texas, and earned a B.A. in Art Education from Baylor University, 1973, and also did post-graduate studies there in the history of the South, a subject that has served her well in her paintings. She says that she has so many potential pictures in her mind, and that it is a natural step to go from loving her subject matter to painting it.
She has taken private art lessons from Bob Wygant, Garland Weeks, and members of the Cowboy Artists of America: John Moyers, Bruce Greene, Martin Grelle, Bill Nebeker, Jim Norton, Fritz White and Roy Anderson. She has ongoing lessons with Bruce Greene. However, she credits her maternal uncle, a professional artist of local reputation, for inspiring her to become an artist. He was her first teacher in figure drawing, which she did in charcoal, and she found his world of art books, paint brushes, and the general art atmosphere of his place intriguing--something that really "hit the spark." Her parents were also very encouraging, and she took a number of private and museum art classes as a child.
Her work has been in exhibitions in the Bosque County Conservatory of Fine Arts in Clifton Texas; the Cowboy Artists of America Museum, Kerrville, Texas; the Oil Painters of America; the American Academy of Women Artists; the Mountain Oyster Show and Sale in Tucson, 1994-1997; and the Cowboy Classic, Arizona National Stock Show in Phoenix, Arizona 1996-1998.
She has been featured in "Western Horseman Magazine," January 1997.
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