Hello, it's Antrice, and welcome to another episode of the Sabby Painter podcast.

This week I am beyond thrilled to present my guest Anne Gail.

Anne is a figurative painter based in Seattle,

and if you're not familiar with her work,

you definitely want to spend some time

to really look at what she's doing in her painting. On the surface, you'll note her distinctive

brush work, how she weaves ribbons of color through figure and background, and plays with edges. But as she will tell you herself, she is constantly setting up challenges to push her painting further.

Anne is a painter's painter, which is probably why during these interviews, when I ask an artist if you could own

a painting by any living artist, whose would it be? Anne's name comes up a lot. Anne received her Bachel's of fine arts from Rhode Island College and her

MFA from Yale University. She has been the recipient of several prestigious awards for

her painting including a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Anne has had solo shows at the Portland Art Museum and the Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina,

and she is represented by the Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco.

I met Anne last summer at the JSS program in Chavita Italy where she was the guest of honor.

And I don't think there are enough superlatives to adequately describe what a great painter and human being and is.

She knows how to ask the right questions to understand where her students are and then she drops

these knowledge bombs that tweak your perspective making it impossible to see your

painting in the same way again. I have to admit I'm a little bit jealous of the students at the University of Washington School of Art where Anne is a full professor.

While in Italy we went on weekly excursions to visit museums throughout the country.

Sometimes that meant a three hour bus ride.

And several times I sat with Anne and we talked about art, life,

and the unbearable heat wave that just wouldn't die down.

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