About Gaylord Soli
“I
find my paintings start from just a color that I’m interested in or a combination of colors working
off each other. Sometimes I just want to get the feeling between a man and a woman. As I Paint, a
whole story gets created and sometimes what I end up with is something entirely new and unexpected.”
Gaylord was born June 9, 1939, on a small farm in North Dakota. At the age of three, his family moved out west to Los Angeles, and although he remained in the city, the beauty of open spaces never left him. He developed a wanderlust that stayed with him through adult years. Gaylord Soli showed an early aptitude for drawing and painting; his vision of his art is largely self taught. He was involved in such diverse activities as pinstriping antique cars to designing fashions for Blackwell and other top designers. Gaylord spent much of his twenties traveling the world. He has gone up the headwaiters of the Amazon River; He went on Safari through the Kalahari desert in Africa. In addition he has been to Iran, Pakistan, Russia, China, and Mongolia. All of these places have in common the allure of primitive cultures that proved a major influence on this work. Of modern painters, he cites the influence of Auerbach, Picasso, Tamaya, and especially Hofmann.
In 1984, Gaylord Started Clearwater Studios and in just a few short years made it one of the preeminent fine arts studios in the country. His sophisticated fine art approach to serigraphy has attracted artists worldwide. Many come to him in the assurance that heir work will faithfully be recreated in the serigraph medium. Among the artists he is currently working with are George Carlson, Thomas Pradzynski, J, Torrents Llado, Frank Howell, and Eyvind Earle.