Artist Gayle Havens
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Biography
Gayle Havens is a watercolor artist living in Hendersonville, NC. Land, sea and sky are inspiration for her paintings. She paints scenes of transitional and diffused light - dawn, dusk and moonlight - depicting atmosphere and mood rather than a narrative. A limited palette, narrower value range, muted colors and soft edges suggest a quiet and contemplative mood. Watercolor pigments, because of their unique qualities of airy delicacy, fluidity and transparency, are her choice of medium.
Gayle took undergraduate classes in studio art and art history at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, the University of New Mexico and Penland School of Crafts. After graduation, painting took a back seat while she helped run a family-owned business and later took graduate classes at the University of Virginia in environmental philosophy and ethics. In 2007, art and painting again took center stage. Setting up a home studio, she devoted her time to watercolor classes, workshops and self-study with a particular interest in the historical and re-emerging Tonalist tradition. Today, her works reflect both her life long passions of care for the environment and love of painting.
Gayle is a Signature Member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society and the Virginia Watercolor Society, and a member of the North Carolina Watercolor Society, Southern Watercolor Society, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, and The American Society of Marine Artists. Recent exhibitions and awards include:
2014 Virgina Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition - Lynchburg, VA Central Virginia Watercolor Guild Annual Exhibition - Charlottesville, VA Bower Center for the Arts National Juried Exhibition - Bedford, VA2015 Virginia Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition - Harrisonburg, VA Central Virginia Watercolor Guild Annual Exhibition - Charlottesville, VA New River Biennial Art Exhibition - Pulaski, VA Riverviews Annual Art Exhibition - Lynchburg, VA2016 Women Painters of the Southeast Annual Juried Exhibition - Abingdon, Va League of [...]
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