Artwork
My World
As a native of Los Angeles, Gayle Garner Roski enjoyed creating images of daily life and the enchanting vistas in the City of Angels and the greater Southern California region. Because she recognized that Los Angeles represents a unique intersection of history and culture, with her watercolor paintings Roski wanted to characterize the area’s special spirit: a distinctive disposition that engages people to pursue their passions, discover their dreams, and, in turn, find common ground with others from around the world.
Travel
Gayle Garner Roski was an avid traveler – her goal was to see, feel and paint the world. She once remarked, “Unknown territory, be it a blank paper or a foreign land, teaches us to be present with our eyes open to see each moment in a new light.” During her travels, which took her from the heights of Mt. Kilimanjaro to the depths of the Atlantic, where she viewed the Titanic from a Russian submersible, she would create at least one painting each day, capturing the full spectrum of life’s vivid colors.
Favorite Things
With her keen eye of observation, Gayle Garner Roski finds beauty in our surroundings that most people overlooked in today’s fast-paced existence. Paying closer attention to objects of everyday life reveals an array of brilliant new colors, which she celebrates with her close-up detailed work. With her watercolor paintings of objects that have captivated her imagination, Gayle uses patterned borders and acrylic frames, which act as windows that invite the viewer into her world.
Book Illustration
With her bright, striking and detail-rich painting style, Gayle Garner Roski has been commissioned to create illustrations for numerous books, including five children’s books for East West Discovery Press, the Los Angeles-based independent publisher and distributor of multicultural and bilingual books. Her paintings were also prominently featured in LUSCious, a cookbook of treasured family keepsake recipes published by the USC Alumni Association, and The Crooked Man, His Doctor and His Angel, created for Operation Walk. She is currently working on a deluxe book of her paintings in her Los Angeles Millennium series.
Public Art
Roski believes that public art is essential for every community, especially Los Angeles. She has had the honor of creating works for public display in numerous public spaces, in addition to identifying artists for commissions of works installed at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angel and the University of Southern California.