About Gerilyn
Gerilyn Gaskill: artist, photographer and bad poet.
Gerilyn has a passion for capturing the beauty of the Delaware coastline
and Delmarva landscapes in watercolor, oil and acrylics. Her interest in
art started in kindergarten and was helped along by her great-grandfather
artist August Seiler, who also painted coastal imagery.
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Gerilyn was born, and raised, in Wilmington, DE spending many summers
in both Rehoboth and Lewes. With the call of the ocean, Gerilyn now
resides closer to beach in Georgetown.
Active in the local arts, she is a member of the Millsboro Art League
(Millsboro, DE), Milton Art Guild (Milton, DE), Rehoboth Art League
(Rehoboth, DE), Mispillion Art League (Milford, DE), and the Art League of
Ocean City (Ocean City, MD).
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Gerilyn's full-time career in took her from her beloved Delaware briefly residing in both Riverside, CA, and Baltimore, MD. She retired in December 2008 quickly moving back to Delaware and hasn’t looked back since. Art consumes her every waking moment. When she’s not painting, she is teaching others to paint. Gerilyn also volunteers a great deal of her time educating youth in the arts. For several years, she has organized and taught an art camp to local youths at the Millsboro Art League. She is also a regular instructor at the Rehoboth Art League, Art League of Ocean City, and for community group paint nights.
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Gerilyn with her husband Howard
"My art is out to capture the here and now before it's forgotten. As a kid I played at empty ship yards and train stations. I noticed the silence and solitude that once held hundreds of people and progress. All gone now except the stillness of the Christiana River. I remember the bustling downtown that went late into the night, now barely a whisper of that glamorous time. I paint the changing time, a visual history that stirs your memories."
~ Gerilyn Gaskill
Affiliations:
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Cape Artists Ass. Member
3Rd. Street Lewes, DE.19958
Millsboro Art League
Rehoboth Art League
Mispillion Art League
Art League of Ocean City
http://www.artleagueofoceancity.org/
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Milton Artists' Guild
Studio's on Walnut Street, Milton, Delaware
Teaching:
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- Art League of Ocean City
(direct link to classes)
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- Out Reach Summer Art Camp
Millsboro Art League
- Local Color Art Demos at ALOC
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- Brushes and Bubble ALOC
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- Cork and Canvas Rehoboth Art League
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- Demo and Paint along Rehoboth Art
League
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- Private Lessons
Exhibitions:
- Art League of Ocean City
- Millsboro Art League, Members Show
- Miniature Painters Sculptors & Gravers
Society of Washington, D.C. Show
- Rehoboth Art League Out Door Show
- Local Color, Easton, MD
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- International Miniature Art Exhibit
Clearwater, FL
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Education:
Although Gaskill has no formal art education; she has studied under several artists including:
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- Oil Painting, (1969), at The Schooner Studio in Wilmington, DE
- Group Figure Drawing (1972) with Howard Scheroeder
- Rehoboth Art League
- Willie Crockett watercolor ALOC
- Watercolor Painting, Tom Jones of Salisbury, MD
- Barbara Doyle Schmid (ALOC)
- Janet Rogers, and Tom Lynch
- Oil Painting with Kevin Fitsgerald
- Watercolor Classes with Marie Natale