GBBeck Fine Art Oil Paintings

Biography of GBBeck

Gail B-Beck, born during WWII, has roots on the East coast.  Growing up with art, music and dancing an important but peripheral part of her life, she eventually found that, in fact,  her passion belonged to the arts.

In her twenties, Gail worked in entertainment, dancing and acting.  She likes to say she joined the circus, dancing on Bell Telephone Hour for two years and Ed Sullivan for another year.  She performed in summer stock and on and off-Broadway.  The circus life ended in Hollywood after appearing in TV shows like Wild, Wild West and Bonanza.  After co-starring in They Shoot Horses, Don't They, she let the Depression Era of the film ground her in an undeniable reality about choices in life.  She left the circus life and made a home for her family.

In her thirties, Gail went back to school to better support that family while building a career as a psychotherapist.  It was this career that brought her back to drawing and painting.  Working in fields associated with domestic violence and post-traumatic stress disorder, she looked for ways to help her patients and herself recover inner ease and balance.  She found that the  peace and beauty in nature and in memories of  moments long gone by, of quieter, simpler times provided a meditative calm.

One fond memory, for instance, was of her grandmother on hot summer afternoons sitting on the front porch rocker with an accordion fan in her hand cooling her off.  Gail began painting a series of porches with a variety of  mementos featured.  Soon, she accepted commissions to paint others or their family members including children, pets, bicycles or skis on porches in different parts of the world during different seasons.

Gail's painting is in the style of impressionist masters.  Her porches as well as her winding streets with textured stonework, windows reflecting whatever is around them, bridges, archways, cobblestone streets catch the sunlight and shadow. Warm and cool colors naturally draw the viewer into a serene and beautiful moment in time.

B-Beck's love for painting led her to explore the styles of French and California Impressionism in depth.  She has a passion for capturing beautiful moments with harmonious light-filled color.  Her  distinctive brushwork matches the rhythm and energy of her work.  She believes painting what the eye sees, not what the brain thinks is seen, best translates what the soul experiences.

Some people have said her paintings are sensory interpretations of the beauty she sees and feels around her.  Others have said that her work tells a story with emotional undertones.  The quiet and meditative quality persuades the viewer to stop, to take it all in, to let it become a touchstone for peace and calm.

Gail's paintings touch the heart.  Her use of light warms the porches that take you back in time to a place where you could spend an afternoon reading a novel and drinking iced tea.  She creates a mood with her paintings.  You want to sit on the porch, wander down the streets and travel into those places.  You want to  meet the people.

Gail is a versatile artist who brings her love of art, music and dance, her art training and her experience as a psychotherapist to her work. There is personality in her portraits, her still-life work and her landscapes.  Gail has been painting for many years throughout her life time.

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