Gina Welds

My art is my diary. Each piece stems from my imagination and expresses a day of happiness, loneliness, sadness, frustration or pain. The viewer is able to take a glimpse into my life by looking at my paintings. Whenever I paint I allow my hand to work with my heart. The canvas or paper is just a means of transferring my thoughts and emotions into brush strokes, color and movement. I can go through a whole range of emotions when I'm painting.

As an artist and art teacher, I strongly believe that the main purpose of the arts is for healing, they make life a more pleasant experience. Art enriches people in their daily living. My goal is to create paintings that will nourish, delight and fill the mind with a sense of wonder. Holding a brush in my hand becomes an extension of something within, a pouring out of myself, so to speak. That makes me vulnerable in a sense, but my painting is really a wanting to give of myself.

Inspiration for my vivid and bright color palette comes from my native Cayman Islands, where coconut palm trees pervade the landscape and white sandy beaches stretch for miles dotted by quaint cottages of various colors and white picket fences. I have been drawing and painting for most of my life. Also a musicia...

Brush with Success, Art Gallery of Viera, Florida, October 2012.

“Mom would love that!” show, Art Gallery of Viera, Viera, Florida, June 2011

“Tropical Daze” Exhibit, Art Gallery of Viera, Viera, Florida,, July 2011

On-going exhibit, Jan’s-U-Frame-It Gallery, Cocoa Village, Florida.

Exhibit at the Black Pearl Fine Art Gallery, Key West Florida, 2008-2009

Featured Artist, Jan’s-U-Frame-It Gallery, Gallery Walk, April 2007

Brevard Cultural Alliance/Hubbs-Seaworld Research Institute Art Auction and Exhibit, Melbourne, Florida, October 2005.

Brevard Cultural Alliance/Hubbs-Seaworld Research Institute Art Auction and Exhibit, Melbourne, Florida, October 2003.

Melbourne International Airport, Melbourne, Florida, September 2003 through December 2003.

Group Exhibit, Cocoa Library and Research Center, August through September 2003, Cocoa, Florida.

Artist-of-the-Month, Cocoa Library and Research Center, Cocoa, Florida, July 2003.

Central Brevard Art Association Group Exhibition at the Cape Canaveral Library and Reference Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 7th, 2003.

Art and Jazz in the Park, Cocoa Village, Florida, March 3rd, 2003.

Featured Artist, Harry and Harriett T. Moore Justice Center, Viera, ...