Gail has been a “maker” since early childhood, creating her own comic strips on bed sheets and door panels, making mud pottery from the orange clay she would dig from her backyard and designing fanciful flying creatures and contraptions.
As a student, her artistic work was recognized with numerous awards. Throughout college she worked as an artist and illustrator, despite receiving her degree in business administration and marketing.
After graduating, and encouraged by her mother, Gail went back to school, not to work on an MBA, but to a local Junior College to learn how to cut and weld steel. Her ability to cut mild steel with an acetylene torch came naturally and effortlessly. She mastered the art of the torch and cultivated her “style” over the course of several years, cut steel becoming her primary medium in artistic endeavors.
Gail has been cutting and welding steel sculptures for over 25 years. “It was the best piece of advice I ever followed,” speaking of her mother’s encouragement.