About The Artist - Gale Obler
I love creating with Stained Glass. Being an artist is not merely my profession, but the essence of who I am. Physically manifesting what I Imagine, the reflections of my Spirit connecting to the Divine Creator is the true purpose of my art.
What makes Stained Glass a wonderful medium to create art is the individual uniqueness found in every sheet of glass. A rich spectrum of colors, different reflections of Light and dark, variety of textures, three dimensional qualities separate stained glass from other art forms. The glassmakers that mold a sheet of glass have provided an artist like myself with a special vehicle to best express the inner visions that I desire to share with others. I hope everyone can appreciate the beauty of stained glass. I wish to make my stained glass art affordable and available to the public.
We are all unique, special individuals only separated by our physical form on Earth, reflecting different faces in the same Mirror. Yet what brings us all together is the desire within our Hearts to join again in Oneness.
Stained glass is Gale's passion as well as the essence of her art. The mere sight of a piece of stained glass has the power to generate a vision, to inspire her to mold and develop that glass to its full potential.
Gale has had a fascination for color and light throughout her life. Although Gale graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Humboldt State College in 1976, for years she found herself drawn to art. She took classes in painting, figure drawing, Native American art and crafts, ceramics, and art welding, and learned the basic fundamentals of shading, perspective and color combinations.
Gale was fortunate to be hired at Paul Crist Studio in 1979 and began making her wonderful Tiffany Stained Glass Reproductions. Paul Crist has an international reputation as one of the worlds leading manufacturers of Tiffany Lamp reproductions. In the studio Gale perfected a variety of skills necessary to create a Tiffany reproduction from a pattern or photograph. The resulting lamp looked so much like a real Tiffany it was difficult to tell her work from the original antique.
After years of working for Paul Crist, Gale became one of a handful of people trained to do this kind of painstaking, skillful work - how to cut and assemble quality stained glass artwork.
In 1992 she gave up her job at Paul Crist. She moved to Joshua Tree, near Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley, to develop her own unique artistic talents, utilizing her cherished stained glass.
Gale is also a highly spiritual person. She is intrigued with the power of nature, and incorporates crystals and geodes into her art form, along with wood, semi-precious stones, and seashells. She says, "I have discovered that stained glass is my path with a heart. With it I can create the visions that I see within, and I hope to inspire and teach others along the way." Her distinctive artwork is now found throughout the U.S. and around the world.
