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Gail Fine has been involved with art since childhood, when her Uncle, a student at Rhode Island School of Design, introduced her to plein air painting.
Relatives introduced her to art museums, the Gilbert Stuart birthplace and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Gail began taking children's classes at Rhode Island School of Design, and by junior year of high school, at an art teacher's studio.
She was accepted (via early admission) at RISD, where she majored in graphic design, typography and minored in photography with Harry Callahan.
Gail was accepted into the Italian Honor's Program and spent senior year in Rome and Milan working with noted Italian graphic designers.
Eventually, Gail became an art director in Boston, and then moved to Hartford, freelancing for several agencies. After a position as an art director for Connecticut General,
Gail opened her own company, "Fine Design". She also studied real estate and contracts, ultimately going into management for a multi-office company, handling their
advertising and marketing. Though all her different career paths, Gail has never given up her love for painting and "capturing the beauty of the moment".
She focuses on capturing light and emotion in real time, whether through her calligraphy or contemporary impressionistic paintings.
Gail has taken classes with noted painters, throughout the Northeast, through such venues as: the West Hartford Art League, Silvermine Art Center, Provincetown Art Center
and Boston Museum of Art at Bennington College. She is a member of the West Hartford Art League (gallery committee), Avon Arts Association (VP), Canton Gallery on the Green, Art League of New Britain, and Connecticut Plein Air Painters.
Gail had a one-woman show at the Investor Center in Avon, and received "Best In Show" at the West Hartford Art League in 2017. She received the "Barbara Morley Award" for an
oil painting at the West Hartford Art League in 2013, and a third place award at the Farmington Valley Art Center "Time & Place" exhibit. Email |
