Gina accepts any custom art inquiries and commissions in any size and colors at very reasonable prices.
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To contact the artist, please send an e-mail to:
ginadegorna@gmail.com
BIOGRAPHY:
Gina De Gorna is a very well established artist and a published author. She is highly educated and well-travelled and she truly believes in the healing power of love, beauty and color. She is convinced that the artist's main job is to focus and devote their art and work to improve and make life more beautiful.
Gina comes from a family of artists and craftsmen. She has lived and studied Fine Art extensively both in Europe and in the United States. Receiving her first art award at the age of ten, she later became a teacher for 11 years. In her 35 years as an artist, Gina De Gorna finished more than 1000 art pieces in both realistic and abstract styles. She continuously does research, reads and writes about art, tutors, and experiments with color, art techniques, styles and painting subjects. In 2002 she visited Hawaii and found her paradise. She eventually moved to the Big Island where she began creating art inspired by the tropics. Her personal favorite subject, the sunset, is evident in many of her paintings.
In 2018 Gina moved to Denver, Colorado and opened her third art gallery there.
In her spare time Gina works with both adults and students and helps organize many charity campaigns to support art, artists and young talents. She has donated numerous paintings to a variety of charities and fund raising events. One of her favorite contributions has been the donation of numerous original paintings to improve and enhance the appearance of children’s hospitals. One of the things that makes her a great person, as well as artist is her firm belief in helping young people showcase their art. Under her leadership students participated in painting murals and together they decorated a whole children's ward in a hospital.
As a full-time artist, Gina De Gorna can offer originals of both oil and acrylic paintings as well as a variety of limited edition Giclee reproductions, posters, cards and prints on canvas, acrylic, metal and paper. Some of her paintings are even available in a variety of home décor items. Her work incorporates a wide variety of subject matter, including murals, illustrations, portraits, landscape and seascape images, animals, birds, sunsets, fish and flowers. Her paintings are recognized for their realistic and expressional values. Her bold and colorful style is the product of her love of color and contrast and is a continuing process of exploration through which the artist is seeking to portray personal or visionary interpretations of the world
Gina's paintings have been shown online, and as well as in art galleries both in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Canada, and the USA.
Gina is published in several articles related to color and art therapy as well as 5 art books. She has written her own step by step instructional books on How to Paint Sunsets which are used by art teachers and people around the world.
Lately Gina is working on larger public art projects like murals and sculptures at public places.
GINA'S FAVORITES:
Favorite Color: RED
Favorite Place: Hawaii, Big Island
Favorite Hobby: Fine ART and painting
Favorite Sports and Activities: Tennis, Boogie Boarding, Bicycling
Favorite Food: All but raw meat;
Favorite Drink: Mojito
Favorite Music: All but Heavy Metal
Gina De Gorna's OTHER INTERESTS: Family, Books - World Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Art & Color Therapy, Travel, Charity.
FAQ:
1.Which artists influenced your art? – Mainly the Old Masters.
2.What techniques and materials do you use in your paintings? – I experiment in all kinds of techniques and paint mostly in oils.
3.Why do you create art in this way? – I create artworks for my own pleasure and what you see is the result of my enjoyment at different times.
4.Have you always created art in this way or have you experimented in the past? – I always experiment.
5.Does your artwork represent your life? – No. My artworks represent only my moods and feelings and personal responses to beautiful things and dreams.
6.Is there a certain subject matter you prefer to use for your artworks? – Sunsets and striking scenes and things.
7.What do you think about your art? – I think it’s not bad.
8.What style your paintings are in? – I’ve painted in all art styles. Painting in one art style only is VERY boring.
9.How did you become famous? – Mostly through my art galleries and art exposure on the internet.
10. How did your birth place affect your work? - I don’t think it affected my art a lot, rather places I went to and things I saw affected my art choices.
11.Anything else that may have inspired you to paint what you paint. – My love to art.
12. At what age did you find an interest in art? - 5
13. What would be your favorite subject to paint and why? - flowers and sunsets because nothing is more beautiful
14. What initially drew you to art/painting? - the beauty
15. How often do you paint? - almost every day
16. Which style of art do you enjoy the most? (i.e. abstract, realism, impressionism) - all
17. How would you describe your artwork to someone who was unfamiliar with it? - colorful
18. Who or what inspires you most? - the beauty of things
19. How long does a typical painting take you to complete? - between a few hours and a few weeks
20. Do you have a particular 'forte' in a certain style of painting or do you constantly experiment? - most often I experiment
21. Out of your many works, which would be your favorite? And if you have one, why? - Lady in Red because it depicts me in most aspects:)
STATEMENT:
Art for me is passion. It's family, friends, beautiful places, things and moods. It's warmth of heart, love and freedom.
Not everything is art and Art is not everything, but it comes close, because Art is everywhere and all the time. In the beginning, art was all beautiful things created by nature. The incredible human abilities sense beauty and harmony and wish to hold, preserve and enjoy it. Art makes you experience the beauty of the world. Art itself is so powerful that it may tell stories, show feelings, express passion or fury. It may be happy or sad. Works of art can be as tiny as miniatures or as enormous as the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Art exists as addition to language. It is like expression of sensations and thoughts, a way of thinking too subtle and delicate for words. Art with its magical splendor is so powerful thus influences and changes life for good. For me art implies some personal, unanalyzable creative power. From the artist art requires love, veracity and perseverance. In return, it reveals the untamed passion. For the public, art with its magnificent beauty improves mood and health and builds better persons. It engages the intellect, softens the heart and frees the spirit.
CONTACT: ginadegorna@gmail.com
Gina De Gorna joined Pixels.com Licensing on October 9th, 2008.
