Equestrian and Sporting Art by Gail Guirreri-Maslyk

Gail Guirreri-Maslyk is an equestrian, sporting, landscape and portrait fine artist working in oil on canvas. Living in Virginia horse country, inspiration is abundant from the many local equestrian sports including fox hunting, polo, Grand Prix jumping, show hunters, carriage driving, dressage, and more. The unspoiled country side is stunning out her studio balcony and has been painted many times in her Rectortown Landscape studies. Gardens, farm animals and wildlife are captured in a moment with quick study paintings. Like all her work, these are free flowing with strong brush strokes easily recognized as iconic 'Gail' paintings.

Gail balances her time between art, computer graphics and programming, her partner's veterinary practice Dr. William B. Ley DVM, MS DACT (VAhorsevet.com), and her own breeding farm of Holsteiner sport horses (Cloverlone.com). Not surprising, her own program was directed towards breeding a colorful spotted Holsteiner with appaloosa coat pattern. Days begin and end with horses: from her barn, to designing equine magazine pages and web sites to paintings on canvas, it's all a work of passion for life.

Depending on the season, commissioned work and new original works, may or may not be available. Reproductions, prints, and other gift items are now always available. Learning and designing a content management system to update this web site frees much of her time to spend in the studio.

As an artist, Gail has been featured in magazines such as The Chronicle of The Horse, Sidelines, Horses in Art, Middleburg Eccentric, and The POST (as well as other newspapers on the East Coast). Gail has been invited to show often at a variety of major events including MFHA Centennial Tour, Kentucky Derby, HITS, ASHA World Championships, and the Virginia State Senate among others. She also donates her efforts to charities helping hospice, humane foundations, youth development, and equine rescue/retirement. She is a current board member of Animal Rescue Fund (arfrescue.org).

Her work has been on many covers including:

• The Chronicle of the Horse (Vol. LXX, NO. 31 and Vol.LXXI, NO.23)
• The Roanoke Valley Horse Show (2000 to present)
• Horses in Art magazine (2008)
• Friesian Grand Nationals (2005, 2007 and 2011)
• IALHA National Championships, 2007
• HITS Finals poster

Gail's future dreams are to help improve and solve business issues that affect the equine industry and the welfare of horses, preventing some horses from needing to be rescued.

Latest from Gail's studio