Discovering Portugal Reception

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) November 29, 2011 --

Discovering Portugal –Rockwell Art Galleries is pleased to welcome back the artistic collaboration of Gayle Gleckler and Tony Woolner in a new dual exhibit of special memories from Portugal featuring paintings and Monoprints. In this show, which is their third collaboration, Gayle and Tony take inspiration from a romantically charged road trip through Portugal - where Tony proposed! Gayle's acrylic paintings and Tony's monoprints are based on their favorite photographic images from Portugal where many castles, walled in towns, fields, and harbors became their muse. They courageously navigated the country in a beat up stick shift using inherent driving abilities and skillful intuition to get to where they wanted to be.

They precariously maneuvered their way through ancient history and artifacts visiting Sintra, Obidos, Marvao, Aveiro, Evora, Santiago, Sentebal, and Cascais. Charmed from the moment they entered Sintra, were they stayed in the oldest inn in Europe, Lawrence Inn, established in 1764. They felt the excitement immediately knowing anyone would be visually inspired...especially artists. From there they followed the Pousado Trail which was lined with castles and palaces that were renovated into modern beautiful hotels and stayed in a two century old Convent.

“The light and color splashed all around us and danced everywhere. The bright Portugal sun cast graphic shadows artists only dream of. From the swan-necked moliceiros (kelp boats) that still glide through ancient canals to the grandest of palaces we marveled. It is our absolute pleasure to present our Portugal experience on canvas and monoprints, and share with you our total joy at discovering this amazing country.”

Tony Woolner is a professional architect who graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and did his graduate work in Architecture at Harvard. He has won awards for his contemporary home designs that have been featured in World Residential Design, Architectural Digest, Casa Vogue, The New York Times, L'Architecttura, House Beautiful, Architects Own Houses of The World and Houses Architects Live In. As an artist, Tony has evolved an original monoprint technique over the years using a blend of mediums to achieve his result. Tony's monoprint "Pawling" was featured in the 34th annual Juried Ridgefield Guild of Artists Show in September 2011.

Gayle Gleckler has had a successful career in advertising, beginning as an Art Director at Young & Rubicam, and eventually becoming Executive Vice President, Creative Director at Foote, Cone and Belding. She created many award-winning campaigns, the most well known being "I'm Gonna Wash that Gray Right Outta My Hair" for Clairol. She then opened her own advertising agency, Gleckler and Partners, growing it to a 17 million dollar company. Along the way she also co-wrote, produced and cast "The Lords of Flatbush", Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler's first movie. Her interest in art goes back to her studies at University of Florida where she earned a Bachelor of Design. She went on to graduate studies at NYU and taught Graphic Concept classes at The School of Visual Arts in NYC. Most recently she was one of the nine artists juried in for Westport Arts Center's SOLOS SHOW 2011, featuring only nine artists. Five of her figure paintings were exhibited. She won First Place in the Silvermine Art Student's Show for painting in 2007 and 2010. Both Gayle and Tony had pieces juried in to the Putnam Arts Center Show on October 2011

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