Gina Clark Browning

Gina C Browning was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, and has always tried to create Art in one form or another for as long as she can remember.

She began painting after she won a competition for extra-curricular art classes at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in 4th Grade. From that point on, she attended continuous art classes at that same museum and at other venues as well, up until the 12th grade. She worked her own way through college and then went on to receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in August 1979 in Metalcraft and Jewelry from North Texas State University. Her degree plan also included several figure drawing and painting classes. After graduation, all of her energy went into her jewelry and wax carving business for the next 38 years, but in 2017, she decided that she wanted to paint again, and she is enjoying it immensely. She still makes jewelry from time to time, but most of her energy is now spent on painting.

In 11th grade, she won an art scholarship to a private school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for one year. While at that school, she was blessed to be able to attend a weekly painting class at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Gina prefers to work in acrylics on canvas, but she wrote and illustrated two books whose illustrations were mostly executed in watercolors, pen and ink, and watercolor pencils. The two books are "Moonbeam Dreams" and "Musings, Moments and Misadventures", published in 2009 and 2011.

Her paintings (and jewelry) have been collected internationally and across the US. She has won numerous awards locally and nationally.

Besides living in Texas and Wisconsin, she has lived in Colorado, Australia (for 16 years), Thailand (for 3 years) and now in North Carolina where she enjoys her rural and very private heavily wooded 8 acres, her husband of 42 years, their 3 dogs, 4 cats, and copious chickens and guinea fowl.