Gayle Muehring has always interpreted the world with an artist’s eye. A lifelong interest in art has led her currently to creating paintings in watercolor, acrylic and oil. Gayle is a colorist, using rich, saturated pigment in her paintings. She paints landscapes, still life images, and abstracts with the intent of guiding the viewer’s eye into the richness and beauty of the subject. Her style is both impressionistic and abstract. Whether her subject is a landscape of Mt. Diablo or an abstract, Gayle's paintings evoke a sense of passion, drama, and appreciation for the subject's intrinsic beauty. Her deep reverence for nature guides  her interpretation of  landscapes.

Gayle creates both representational landscapes and abstract emotional landscapes.  Inspiration for the abstract paintings can come from a single emotion, an event, colors, ideas, dreams, travel and nature  Her current abstracts evoke a sense of calmness and space.

She is a current member of the Alamo-Danville Artists Society, Lamorinda Arts Alliance, East Bay Artists Guild, and Arts Benicia.

Gayle has participated in many local art competitions winning  ribbons in juried shows over the years.  Her watercolor image "Cabernet Grapes" was chosen for the cover of the San Ramon Community Activities brochure. Her painting "Spring Grapes" was purchased by the City of Livermore to be added to their permanent collection of public art. She also won a silver award at the yearly art competition with the Alameda County Fair in 2004 and 2005. Her painting, Last Light, was juried in the Crocker Kingsley Show at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento in 2005.  In March of 2005, she participated in the Arts & Culture Commission of Contra Costa County show.  Two of her paintings were chosen for the advertisement letter of this show.  She won 3 awards including a first place for a landscape juried into the fall show of the Contra Costa Academy of Art, 2005.  On the website for the Alamo-Danville Artists Society, one of her paintings was chosen for the banner.  She was juried into both of the Fall and Spring shows in 2006 for ADAS.  In May and Sept. 2006 she was juried into an Abstract Art Show at the Valley Art Gallery in Walnut Creek.  She participated in the Antioch Art Alliance Celebration of Art in June, 2006. In August and September 2006 she had two solo shows at Walnut Creek City Hall and Sonoma National Bank in Walnut Creek. In January 2007 she has works in the Orinda Library Gallery in Orinda, CA and the Benicia Arts Membership Show in Benicia, CA.  She has works in public and private collections. Gayle is currently represented by Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA.

Contact Gayle at her studio in Walnut Creek.