Bio:Gina is a native of Tampa, Florida, where she lives with her family and ever changing population of pets. As a child Gina began her art career by drawing pictures for her friends in grade school. She later had the good fortune to land her first job as a portrait artist at Busch Gardens. She continued to work at “The Gardens” every summer during high school, and through her college years while majoring in fine art and later commercial art. While in college, she met a wonderful guy, got married, and started a family. After a 12 year hiatus from her art to focus on her young family, Gina slowly began to redevelop her career again. At first by taking portrait commissions and more recently, by using her creativity to develop her folk art/pop style of art that has become her trademark. Gina creates the majority of her art in Acrylic on stretched canvas. She also enjoys working in Pastels and dabbling in oil paint which gives her a variety of different media to work. Gina works in her Tampa home studio, assisted by her two dogs, Cujo and Heidi, and most frequently Odie the cat. She is a member of Tampa Realistic Artists in Hyde Park, where she has served as an active board member for 3 years, Las Damas De Arte, and The Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Fl. Gina exhibits at art festivals all over central Florida in the spring and fall.
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