Gail Dentler, is a south Texas artist, applying advocacy of the natural world through art. She has a passion for using watercolor to illustrate the ecology of plants, pollinators and wildlife found in gardens and coastal prairies. 

Dentler is currently recording in art, natural food sources guzzled by hummingbirds as they trek through Texas on a biannual migration.  These plants can be handpicked for our gardens and landscapes.  “I am creating these botanical illustrations as a way of safekeeping the rhythms of nature as we dwell on the Texas coastal prairie.”

CREDENTIALS
  She has acquired a botanical illustrating certification from the Society of Botanical Artists, a BBA from Sam Houston State Univ. and an MAE from Texas Tech Univ.
She was awarded a grant from:
Fine Line Group, the Family offices of
Sasha and Edward P. Bass for the New Normal in Rockport TX., for the creation of new artwork that reflects life in Rockport.

She has exhibited at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, “Art that Matters To The Planet: Beyond Beauty”, Jamestown, NY 2026.

Her previous art quilt work has been shown in juried competitions such as Handweaver’s Guild of America Assoc., “Small Expressions”, Bernina’s “Quilt for a Queen”, in the UK, and “A World of Beauty”, International Quilt Association’s International Quilt Festival.  Currently my work is in two private collections: Bernina’s U.K., “Quilt for a Queen” and “Love Ewe”(photography) with Texas Tech University’s private collection, exhibiting at the Hill Country campus.  She has been juried by Cara Manes, an assistant curator of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York for the Houston exhibit:  Assistance League of Houston “Celebrates Texas Art 2020”.