Artist Bio
Gina C Browning was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, and was always trying to create art in one form or another.
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 classes at that same museum, and at other venues as well, up until 12th grade. She then went on to receive her BFA 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. 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". 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 41 years, their 2 dogs, 4 cats, and copious chickens and guinea fowl.