Gaile Meeks hails from a pioneer family of Jackson Hole, Wyoming and has migrated to Loveland, Colorado. She started drawing and painting when she was in grammar school. When Gaile was in high school she painted her first mural. Gaile never went to art school but had several lessons in watercolor. One of Gaile’s oil paintings won a 4-state congressional award and hung in the U.S. Senate for a year. That is the only competition she has ever entered. She has painted a mural on the side of a house in Florida and a 12’ by 10’ canvas backdrop for a stuffed Brahma bull. Gaile painted pictures on everything from the refrigerator to the furniture to the front of a store counter. It takes from a day and a half - to 3 days to do a mural … depending on how much detail is wanted and how much area is to be covered. Most of it is done with a 4-inch brush. Gaile paints prolifically and has had a great deal of fun painting murals lately. Although arthritis is taking a toll on her hands and it’s difficult to do the detail work, at the age of 72, Gaile still works full-time in a high tech industry and paints in her spare time. [email protected] -- Gaile
