Deeling Gregory has painted in various media on paper and canvas for over thirty years. Her subject matter ranges from figurative, to still life, to landscape and abstract. She is currently working on a series of landscape oil paintings. Her paintings are in private collections all over the world.

A note from the artist:

I was born in 1949 in Honolulu, Hawaii, which accounts for the curious reality that when I might appear to be sitting on a settee or walking down a supermarket aisle in Great Falls I am really and truly backfloating in the ocean at Waikiki or climbing a banyon tree or hiking by a stream in Manoa Valley---all as a child of about ten or eleven years old.

My childhood was indeed magical , and I thought and still think that all children had similar charmed lives; all children had wonderful intelligent and creative parents and siblings and were treated with dignity and respect and a whole lot of love.

At the age of seventeen I left home for college at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where I proceeded to study all the academic subjects that the daughter of the chairman of the mathematics department at the University of Hawaii might be expected to study. My sister convinced me to take some art history courses and a figurative drawing class with her, and together with study abroad and exposure to the great art in museums and churches in Europe I was swept away.

After graduation I headed north to the San Francisco Art Institute, where I mostly drew from the figure and painted on my own. I lived there for thirty years, walking the hills, enjoying the incredible views and utterly fascinated by the everchanging panoply of faces and cultures.

So you must excuse me if I seem distant---I may be off in Hawaii or San Francisco, or I might be painting a watercolor, in a sunlit place, with the pure heart and spirit of a child.

-Deeling Gregory

Resume :  
Born: April 25, 1949; Honolulu, Hawaii
Studies: B.A. Stanford University 1970; attended San Francisco Art Institute 1970-4
Works shown: Counterpane, Sausalito,California 1973; Diego Rivera Gallery SFAI
1974; Open Studios South of Market, San Francisco 1977; Goodman Art Works,
San Francisco1978; Gima’s Art Gallery, Honolulu 1979; Campus Center Gallery,
University of Hawaii, Honolulu 1979; Augusta’s, San Francisco 1986; Main Gallery,
Consolidated Edison, International, Los Angeles 1996; University of Great Falls
1999; Neighbors, Great Falls 2000; Public Radio Offices MSU Great Falls
1999-2005 First Friday Art Walks
2005-Present Cafepress Designs & Various Projects

“Sun latitudes, sonorous gems,
The light flickers, shadows dart,
Leafy imps and pungent fruit,
Dolorous blooms,
The tinkling of jade,
Teardrops rippling,
Crashing waves,
Still water,
Birdsong,
A child smiles”