My name is Ronda Gish and I am an Ohio based Professional & self-taught Artist. Recently I have been included in Marquis Who’s Who. I have been creating artwork for years using various mediums: oil, watercolor, pastels, acrylics, ink, and clay. My artwork is inspired by my family, dogs, horses, life events.
Imagination and life in general continued to inspire my artwork throughout my school days. At age 13, I was the youngest student chosen by the local Congregational Church to attend a special art class held at the University of Illinois college in Champaign-Urbana. Attending at this age was very impressionable to me as the rest of the students in this art class were much older. The experience inspired me later to enter juried fine art shows bringing home Best of Show to Mayoral awards. I was also listed at one point in The Who’s Who in Chicago for Portraits. Shows, Ribbons, Certificates are great ways to show your accomplishments in Art, but they are not my inspiration.
Depending on what I encountered in life and different inspirations, I was drawn to use different mediums as that energy spoke to me. I have painted on different “canvases”, from Automobiles, wall Mural, to Fine Arts. Sometimes I wonder where all of this energy, motivation, inspiration comes from but really it’s not any one object or the medium, it’s a combination of my life, my environment, my creativity that speaks to me through the medium I chose to express that feeling.
My specialty grew to Portraits showing the personality of the person or animal. I am able to add someone who has passed, in family portraits.
Simply put – it’s art and every piece I create is unique!