Gail Roberts grew up in North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. She graduated with a bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Art Education. After graduation, Gail pursued a career in art design and advertising, working with the Cato Corporation. Later she worked as an art teacher in both junior and senior high school levels. In 1977, Ms. Roberts and her husband moved to Winston-Salem and opened their family business, Ski and Tennis Station. She continued her work in art and design in her business through advertising and fashion merchandising.
After raising her two sons, Gail returned to painting in 1999 and hasn’t stopped since. She says “I have a passion to paint and cannot wait to get to my studio.” Gail uses oil, acrylic, and pastels as her mediums to express herself. In the early years, she concentrated on still life work but now enjoys studio and plein air painting of landscapes, cityscapes, and abstracts. Her work has become more impressionistic over the years. She concentrates on vibrant color and how light and shadows affect her subjects.
Ms. Roberts has won many awards in exhibits throughout North Carolina. One of her latest oil paintings won first place in the juried exhibit of “Visual Feast” at the Associated Arts of Winston-Salem. She is very active in exhibits and venues around Winston-Salem and surrounding counties. She currently is showing and painting in her own studio and gallery, “The Painters’ Palette at 114 Reynolda Village, Winston-Salem, N.C.
