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A free newsletter for art lovers & the art-curious. Join 900+ subscribers for new artists each Friday - written by artist and former gallery owner, Adele Gilani.
About Adele
About Adele
Adele Gilani is an artist who believes in the power of art to connect people and create change. Originally from Kentucky, she earned her BFA from the University of Kentucky before moving west to Humboldt State, where the towering redwoods became her classroom for lithography and painting. Nature has always been her greatest inspiration, which eventually led her to Sausalito, where she ran the Adele Gilani Art Gallery from 2019 to 2024. Now based in Oakland, California, Adele creates glittery landscape paintings that echo her connection to the world around her. She's happy to share her love of art through her newsletter, Adele Delivers, a space where her passion finds a home with her readers.
Art by Adele
Art by Adele
I paint nature, mostly weather and parabolas. I love pink- to describe motherhood and clarity. I love glitter like the stardust we're all made of. I love technology and how it must be hardwired into everything, even the trees, the energy of it all, the divine shapes. I like to ferment things, like yogurt, the way I ferment ideas and they magically show up in paintings. I love to write and lately I find myself writing mostly about art. I believe I'm an Enneagram 9 in this moment but who knows what the day will bring.
"Whatever you like it all fits in. It doesn't matter how different those things are that you like. They all fit into this world of shit you like."
— El-P (On the "What Had Happened Was.." podcast)
Notable Work
Notable Work
Germinate
Germinate
This painting hangs in my living room and looking at it is a part of my daily ritual. It's the last thing I painted before I had my first child. She was actually in my belly when I painted it. I was inspired by Van Gough because I'd just been to a Van Gough exhibit in Japan. I was so taken by his Oleanders, I gathered bay leaves from a tree in my back yard and painted them in the same style.
Divine Light
Divine Light
This is a painting I did of my backyard after it nearly burnt down. The golden hour never seemed so golden. This painting is 6 feet tall. My yard no longer looks like this. My husband built an amphitheater back there during Covid. This space is incredibly activated. There are lots of plum trees and deer. The eucalyptus is fragrant. You can see the Bay through their leaves.
Here for a Good Time
Here for a Good Time
This is another 6-footer. In 2023 my 90-year-old Pappaw made the trip from Kentucky to California to stay with my family for a month. He hiked everywhere from Muir Woods to Alcatraz using my son's stroller to lean on when he felt weak. This is an image of Trinidad State Beach and words from one of his favorite old country songs in his honor.
Pink Clouds
Pink Clouds
I painted these at my gallery during a rainy week when business was slow. I made three like this and the open sky soothed any worries I had at the time. I focussed on how everything in my life was in service to art and I just needed to put one foot in front of the other and know that an honorable path was unfolding before me. Little did I know at the time, pink is a symbol of clarity.
Adele Delivers
Adele Delivers
Each week I sit down to write about artists I love, almost always alive, a lot of Bay Area artists, lots of women and artists from diverse backgrounds. I share these artists on Adele Delivers. I'd love to see you there. You can sign up here.
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