Gail Daly
Gail Daly was raised in Vancouver, BC and has been a resident of the Peace County since 1952. She attended the Peace Summer School of Landscape Art (1984-1985), earned a Visual Arts Diploma from the Grande Prairie Regional College (1990), and received numerous awards for scholastic achievement. She has held membership with the Peace Watercolour Society, and has regularly exhibited in solo and group shows regionally and nationally. Her work can be found in the collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital (Grande Prairie), the Cross Cancer Clinic (Edmonton), AMOCO Canada, Weyerhaeuser, and the Prairie Art Gallery, which Daly has actively supported throughout her artistic career.
Daly’s meditative approach to life is captured in the calm and assured manner in which she creates and presents work, which combines everyday things like automobiles and buildings with natural phenomena such as trees, waterfalls, horses, and flowers. Daly’s sensitivity to and sensibilities with the medium of watercolour are evident in her paintings and in her prints, which evoke memories and nostalgia for those who grew up on the prairie in the first half of the 20th century. Her work invites viewers to bask deeply in the composition of a fleeting moment so they might glimpse beyond it.
Daly’s meditative approach to life is captured in the calm and assured manner in which she creates and presents work, which combines everyday things like automobiles and buildings with natural phenomena such as trees, waterfalls, horses, and flowers. Daly’s sensitivity to and sensibilities with the medium of watercolour are evident in her paintings and in her prints, which evoke memories and nostalgia for those who grew up on the prairie in the first half of the 20th century. Her work invites viewers to bask deeply in the composition of a fleeting moment so they might glimpse beyond it.