Gayle Stockley

Gayle Stockley’s artwork is about the play between color, line and form. “I trained as a painter but have been drawn to the direct working processes of drawing and hands-on physicality of sculpture”. Her painting style developed after a seven year period making relief sculpture using bushfire-blackened casuarina saplings. She returned to painting in 2015 and continued to work with simple, geometric, abstract composition with the addition of color. A trip to San Francisco and New York in 2019 (seeing the artwork of many artists including Ellsworth Kelly, Imi Knoebel and Brancusi) was a source of inspiration and gave clarity to her artistic direction.

Gayle’s paintings are constructed using pencil grid-lines, acrylic and oil paint applied with a brush and/or palette knife in a raw, sketchy manner, often on un-stretched canvas, giving the canvas fabric some movement and association with wall-hung textiles.
Gayle was also selected to exhibit her work at The Other Art Fair Sydney in October, 2023.

Submitted by Alfa Gallery