gail pickett

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Merseyside based gail graduated from Liverpool art school in 1995, and since then has exhibited widely around Liverpool as well as the rest of the Uk, and as far afield as Germany.

Her work is often linked to her strong interest in natural form, and in particlular fish. She hopes to challenge and explore the sometimes misunderstood genre of nature painting and also the ambiguous relationship between painting and photography.

Gail discusses how she uses these contradictions and parallels in her work-

"Machines such as photocopiers and cameras are often believed to reproduce reality more accurately than painting but even the simple act of reproducing the same image for example the koi carp in "reproduction" leads to differences in tonality not controlled by the operator and differences in size which is controlled. Rather like selective breeding (the koi is the ultimate example of selective breeding) the outcome can never be totally guaranteed. I want my paintings to work as interesting images which entertain the eye. Pictures, in other words, ones which can be perhaps both about (painting) and of (nature)."

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knots 152cm x 109cm, oil on linen original £1100	reproduction 107cm x 107cm, oil on board original £990	twelve colours of the rainbow trout 61cm x 30cm, oil on board original £550
ripples 76cm x 76cm, oil on board original £715	tickled trout 69cm x 51cm, pencil on paper original £165	threes 30cm x 30cm, oil on board original £200
cloth and thorns 46cm x 61cm, oil on board original £250	feather study 30cm x 30cm, oil on board original £200	three geese over a reedbed 46cm x 38cm, oil on canvas original £250
nautilus and land snails 61cm x 76cm, oil on board original £400	the gatekeeper 61cm x 122cm, oil on board original £550	bird in the hand 122cm x 92cm, oil on board commission example