Collection: Gerry Giorgio

A FEW THINGS ABOUT THE ARTIST

1. What do you do when you’re not making art? (Day job etc...).

I have spent my life and continue to work in horticulture.

2. Why do you make art?

I make art, painting and drawing specifically, to tell stories.

3. What inspires you?

My personal experience, topical events, mythologies or whatever happens to come through me.

4. What/who are your influences?

Pain, joyfulness, suffering, contentment, imperfection, melancholy, nature, color, conflict, fear, love.

5. If you could meet anyone dead or alive who would it be?

I’d like to meet Bob Dylan at a party with DaVinci, Van Gogh, Siddhartha Gautama and Larry David.

Read our interview with Gerry Giorgio in the AllArtWorks Featured Artist Series here.