Gayle Ebose’s practice places both Ebose and her subject’s telling their story at the centre as they navigate life’s experiences through the body and skin they are in. She uses the process of portrait painting as a means to preserve the faces and voices of sojourners whose bodily image is recorded by Ebose’s real-time brushwork, depicting in-between, small moments over conversation.
The subjectivity of her portraits gives them agency, they are conversational and unapologetic in their presence. Each painting invites us to contemplate our own existence and inner wellbeing and gently points us to the awareness of God and how He fearfully and wonderfully makes us in His image.
Gayle Ebose was born and bred in London. She studied Broadcast Journalism at Nottingham Trent University and a few years later received her postgraduate in Fine Art Painting at Camberwell College of Arts at the University of Arts London. Gayle currently works as a full time artist.
“Life continues to throw what it will at us, I’m just so grateful to know the One who made it all is kind enough to be mindful of me and to spare me each day, for His glory really. I’m just honoured my work can point to a bit of that truth too”
— Gayle Ebose