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	Artist Profile   Gail Hillow Watkins   Nikopol Vase/Bayeaux, by Gail Hillow Watkins. 27.5 x 34.5 in., mixed media on linen, 2001. Click for larger view. It is the natural process of formation and dissolution that interests me and is evident in my work. Using stencils, layers of paper, (comics, newspapers, photocopy, foils), paint and glue, I carefully design and construct my paintings. The surfaces are then distressed, often brutally, with sandpaper, wire brushes, boiling water and graffiti. Repeating the process of building up and tearing down, I work toward an inset of the historical process, a reintegration of the elements destroyed by the passage of time and nature. To contact Gail email: ghwatkins@comcast.net