Gail Titus, with over two decades of experience as a ceramic artist creating wall sculptures and commissioned installations, has recently shifted her focus toward her enduring passion for abstract painting. Delving into in-depth studies of abstract painting techniques, Titus has channeled her expertise into crafting works on canvas utilizing acrylic paint and an array of unconventional tools and methods. Much like her ceramic creations, her primary emphasis in painting remains on the development of surfaces.
Titus works spontaneously and intuitively without regard to realistic forms, but with a focus of textures, colors and interesting shapes. She creates artworks by applying paint to a canvas using brushes, scrapers, water bottles or other objects, working quickly and intuitively. After this initial phase she begins to discern and work more methodically, further developing the painting. As this process continues, certain areas of the painting will start to feel undeveloped. This is when she will methodically rework those areas until the artwork gradually feels resolved.
Titus says of her work, “It is difficult to title my work. I paint spontaneously, usually without any preconceived ideas…when a painting is close to being finished or when it is finished that I can relate the composition to something external, but often not even then. I really want the viewer to relate to the images on the painting, with their response coming from their own experiences.”
Her artworks have been acquired by corporations and private collectors throughout the United States, Canada and Australia.
