Gayle Wheatley
Illustrator & Art Director

Websites:

• http://www.gaylewheatley.com

Gayle Wheatley is a professional illustrator, painter, and art director, who specializes in fun, fashionable, and irresistibly glamorous illustrations and vibrant, dream-like, and delightfully textured paintings. Her artwork is heavily influenced by mythology, Asian culture, feminist thought, and her many globe trekking adventures. She has lived abroad in both Italy and Japan, and has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia. She currently maintains a studio in Los Angeles.

Gayle has created work for clients such as Natural Health magazine, Teen magazine, Bratz Dolls, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Southern Bride Magazine, Pepperdine University, Whole Life Times, Tokyo and Kansai Scene magazines, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, just to name a few. She is an accomplished painter and illustrator whose work has been published and exhibited in the United States, Japan, England, Italy, Germany, Canada, South Korea and Hong Kong, and her art can be found in numerous private collections around the world.

Fine art: paintings

Illustration: editorial, advertising and Children's

Design: Print, Web & Broadcast

I'm always on the lookout for freelance illustration gigs. I am currently seeking representation as well.

University of California, Santa Barbara, M.Ed coursework in Art Education
Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. B.A. Journalism, Art
Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy, 1999. Advanced studies in figure drawing

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Blush, icandy, Los Angeles, California, April 2006
Body Kanji, Gallery Yusuian, Osaka, Japan, May 2003

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Portfolio of Creative Work, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, California, April-May 2008
The Bird Show, Cactus Gallery, Eagle Rock, California, January-February 2008
Tiny Treasures, Cactus Gallery, Eagle Rock, California, Dec. 2007-January 2008
Exceedingly Way Too Over Hung, Concrete Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, California, December 2007
Way Too Over Hung, Concrete Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Dec. 2006
Degreez of Environment, Gallery Fujihara, Osaka, Japan, January 2003
Calibre Contemporary Art Space, Osaka, Japan, August 2002
Organics in an Industrial World, Gallery Midosuji, Osaka, Japan, July 2002
Confessions, Howard A. White Center, Malibu, California, March 2000
Estate '99, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy, July 1999

SELECTED PUBLISHED WORK
Kartika Review, featured artist, 2008, 2007
Southern Bride Magazine, illustrator, 2008, 2007
Bratz Dolls (MGA Entertainment), illustrator, 2006, 2005
Whole Life Times, illustrator, 2006, 2005
Natural Health Magazine, illustrator, 2005
Euphorix Magazine, illustrator, 2005
Kansai Scene Magazine, illustrator 2003,
2002 Tokyo Scene Magazine, illustrator, 2003, 2002
WestsideMomma.com, illustrator, 2002, 2001
Teen Magazine, illustrator, 2000
Expressionist Magazine, featured artist, April 2000
The Graphic, illustrator, 1998-2000