{"id":4574,"date":"2012-01-17T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/?p=4574"},"modified":"2012-01-17T15:16:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T15:16:26","slug":"artist-profile-gail-mcnaughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/artist-profile-gail-mcnaughton\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTIST PROFILE \u2013 GAIL MCNAUGHTON"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARTIST PROFILE \u2013 GAIL MCNAUGHTON<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

January 13, 2012<\/p>\n

Gail is a Canadian Poet and Author and has developed into a Doodle Artist.\u00a0 She resides in St. Thomas with her husband, Bob, and three cats \u201cPanda Bear\u201d, \u201cPoppy\u201d and \u201cCasey\u201d after relocating here from Toronto 14 years ago.\u00a0 She is co-owner of Dog & Pony Productions Inc., a marketing and video production company helping organizations \u201cTell their Story to get Results\u201d as well as Social Media COO that helps companies to \u201cEngage and Inspire\u201d using social media for business.<\/p>\n

She has written 5 books and one book in particular, \u201cTo Have A Cup Of Tea With A Cat & Other Cat Tails<\/em>\u201d shows illustrations of her doodle art.\u00a0 Doodle Art Angels and Fairies can also be found in her most recent book, Angel Witness<\/em>, which is a coffee-table size book filled with spiritual writings, angel photos and art.<\/p>\n

A series of cartoon characters have come to life through Gail, the primary one being Flowercat \u2122. She has a collection of characters that she calls her cartoon family. They each have individual names and identies.\u00a0 Her latest characters are \u201cIris Eyelash\u201d and \u201cFleecy\u201d.\u00a0 Fleecy, a Golden Doodle Dog, born on October 1, 2010, became part of Gail\u2019s world after investigating the meaning of \u201cDoodling\u201d. Up popped the Doodle Dog and having such a dog made total sense to inspire her further.\u00a0 On her birthday, Gail also got a Flowercat \u2122 and Friends tattoo that she proudly wears on her back. This is a permanent reminder that her cartoon family was created within and she lives and breathes her doodle art family on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Since February 2004, Gail has been doodling while attending lectures, waiting for appointments, as a passenger in a car, at her cottage, away on vacations, while sitting in bed and at her antique desk in the kitchen.\u00a0 She has built up quite a collection of artwork! Some doodles have been coloured using magic markers, paint pens and acrylics. In 2007 some were compiled in a Flowercat \u2122 colouring book, sponsored by local businesses, friends and family and went to the Dominican Republic for children to enjoy.\u00a0 They have now gone to other countries as well.<\/p>\n

Gail has a love of bright, primary colours so her doodle artwork is bold, playful, dramatic and loving.\u00a0 The cartoon characters all have congenial, loving personalities and interact to help heal the world in the midst of hearts, flowers and other symbols.<\/p>\n

Divinely inspired to create, Gail\u2019s doodle characters come to her in many dreams including the Angel-Woman \u201cAngelica\u201d.\u00a0 By putting a heart behind any figure, they become angels Gail discovered.\u00a0 Using significant words, phrases and inspiring comments in her work makes the reader think.\u00a0 She often writes stories about her drawings and paintings.<\/p>\n

Her work has been shown at many local venues – St. Thomas Library, Art Wall in Joe Preston, MP\u2019s office, Appreciation of the Arts, Horton Farmer\u2019s Market, Tour of Gardens at her home and at other events. Her doodle artwork can be purchased as enlargements, greeting cards, bookmarks, T-shirts, paintings, buttons and on mouse pads.<\/p>\n

Gail\u2019s other passion is antique rug hooking whereby she creates her own designs and Flowercat \u2122 doodle artwork.\u00a0 She uses a variety of wool fabrics and interprets colour for the pattern that she has created using texture and the melding pot of wools to visually tell a story.\u00a0 Her rug hookings have been on display locally and at the Trent University Rug Hooking School.<\/p>\n

Forever a photographer, Gail takes photos in and around St. Thomas and Elgin County, around the world and at the cottage.\u00a0 She specializes in angels, statues, flowers, gardens, animals, still-life and sunrises.\u00a0 Under the brand \u201cThe Photographic Heart\u201d, a division of Dog & Pony Productions Inc., she sells photo art greeting cards to retailers, at the Horton Farmer\u2019s Market to the public, at the cottage, out of her home and from her website.\u00a0 She has also produced three postcards of Jumbo, \u201cThe Fantasy\u201d series – \u201cPink Jumbo\u201d, \u201cJumbo Visits Alma College\u201d and \u201cJumbo Visits the 2010 IPM\u201d. These came about after she created the theory that since Jumbo was painted pink for one weekend, as a primer, he became \u201cmagical\u201d and could travel around Elgin County. You know what they say about \u201cpink elephants\u201d!<\/p>\n

Gail\u2019s intention is also to bring historical memories to St. Thomas and Elgin County residents and tourists. In a joint effort with the Elgin County Archives, she created reproductions of old photos for art cards from the Scott-Sefton, Alma College, Hugh Sims and Evans archival collections.\u00a0 Postcard reproductions have also been done from Don Cosen\u2019s and Ken Tuff\u2019s postcard collections.\u00a0 Additionally, Gail has reproduced greeting cards of several artists\u2019 work including Tom Spatafore, Canadian Wildlife artist; Paul Schleusner, formerly of Port Stanley and Teresa Marie of Grand Bend.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Children\u2019s Seed Project\u201d in 2004 was near to Gail\u2019s heart. She utilized $100.00 given to her at The Women\u2019s Conference in London to do something positive in her community. Ten young artists were selected and had a day with a famous painter, Paul Schleusner, and their artwork was displayed in the St. Thomas \u2013 Elgin Public Art Centre. A video was made of the event and Gail presented it at the next Women\u2019s Conference. She also enjoyed her participation in the St. Thomas \u2013 Elgin Public Art Centre\u2019s \u201cBanner Art\u201d program where her banner \u201cSpring Thing\u201d was hung downtown St. Thomas during the summer of 2005.<\/p>\n

In 2008 Gail initiated another project, \u201cWalk The Chalk\u201d where chalk art was done on the main downtown street, Talbot Street, in St. Thomas as part of the annual Iron Horse Festival.\u00a0 This was a first for the Festival and the City of St. Thomas.\u00a0 Sponsorships were sold to companies and individuals and they were matched up with not-for-profit organizations that did the chalk art utilizing the manpower of friends, family, staff and volunteers.\u00a0 It was a glorious scene to watch the art work magically unfold on the street over two days.\u00a0 First place went to the Alzheimer Society, second went to The Association for Community Living and third went to the VON.<\/p>\n

Gail is a member of the Elgin Business Women\u2019s Network where she is on the Administration Committee, St. Thomas Memories In Wool Rug Hooking Club, Elgin County Tourist Association, St. Thomas & District Chamber of Commerce and the St. Thomas \u2013 Elgin Public Art Centre.<\/p>\n

Her website is www.gailmcnaughton.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ARTIST PROFILE \u2013 GAIL MCNAUGHTON January 13, 2012 Gail is a Canadian Poet and Author and has developed into a Doodle Artist.\u00a0 She resides in St. Thomas with her husband, Bob, and three cats \u201cPanda Bear\u201d, \u201cPoppy\u201d and \u201cCasey\u201d after relocating here from Toronto 14 years ago.\u00a0 She is co-owner of Dog & Pony Productions … Continue reading ARTIST PROFILE \u2013 GAIL MCNAUGHTON<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4576,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions\/4576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}