About the Artist
Gay Martha Zurich
Personalized Watercolor Keepsakes for Everyone on your gift giving list: from
Babies to Grandparents and all of Life In-between!
A message from Gay:
Hello! Thank you for taking an interest in my personalized watercolor cartoons!
These cartoons are personalized to fit your profession or occupation, a hobby or
special interest, those special people in your life, or those special occasions
that make life so meaningful.
Furthermore, these cartoons are personalized to each recipient, whose name, the
names of loved ones or pets, important dates, and other personal information,
makes it more intimate. Also available are more special touches, such as
mustaches and beards, and hair color, as well as skin tones and physical
characteristics for different races and nationalities, which are included in the
cartoons to make them that much more special to each recipient.
I took a long time to develop each picture - years, in some cases - in order to
accurately portray the little details, the surroundings, and even the types of
humor that are typical of each. I have filled my pictures with original humor,
decorative color, and intense detail. With more than a thousand original
designs in print, there is something for everyone, with art to compliment both
contemporary and traditional decor. You should find much to identify with in
each picture.
My work is meant to be uplifting, humorous and joyful, and sentimental. It is
meant to bring a smile or even laughter, perhaps a sentimental tear. It is
meant to warm your heart and, in some small way, to enrich your life. Thank you
for letting part of my Art & Soul touch your life. I hope you
enjoy your "Art With Heart" forever.
With love,
Gay Martha Zurich
About the Artist
Gay Zurich has been selling her handmade art since she was seven years old
and the look remains the same today, even though she no longer looks like
she's seven years old!
Gay draws much of her creativity and subject matter from everyday life. Her
colorful, original pictures are created primarily in watercolor, pen and ink.
Lithographic prints of her originals are produced, assembled and marketed
directly from her home studio in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Her original designs hang
in bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchens, offices and boardrooms around the world. Her
art work has been featured in local and national newspapers and magazines,
televised on the TODAY show, CNN, National Public Television, and PM Magazine.
She has done custom illustrations for Coca-Cola, Wisconsin Bell Telephone,
Marshall Fields, AT&T, Sycom Industries, the California based COPCO Kitchen
Company, and the Oregon Popcorn Company. Her "Good Cook" picture was
commissioned as a cover design for an International Cookbook. The Art & Soul
logo was featured in the Land's End Corporate Catalog. People watching
situation comedies on television have noticed her artwork hanging on the walls
of the TV sets. And, recipients of her personalized art have included Ross
Perot, Richard Simmons, a former Miss America, and a pilot of Air Force One.
Gay received her Education & Art Degree from the University of Wisconsin at
Whitewater. She began her teaching career as a fifth-grade teacher at a local
elementary school, and has taught art at both elementary and adult levels, as
well as serving as a judge for many art shows. Along with her art business, she
currently teaches business classes at a local college, in which she instructs
other artisans in marketing what they make, and she does Personalized Consulting
Services for entrepreneurs.
In 1970, she did a special drawing of her mother, who liked it so much that Gay
has been painting and selling her watercolor 'ARTOONS ever since. She,
and nearly 10,000 of her Independent Sales Consultants and Artistic
Personalizers, have sold millions of dollars worth of her work at thousands of
Art Fairs all around the world. She has displayed and sold her work at the
famous Junior League Christmas Boutique Shows, better known as the Champaign
Circuit of Christmas Boutiques, which are open to only 30 or 40 individual
artisans throughout the United States. Along with local art fairs and private
home art shows, both Gay and her independent consultants collectively have shown
her work at fine art shows and museums throughout
all 50 states, as well as in Canada, Germany, France, England, and Japan.
Recently, Gay moved her company back into her home to operate her business by
herself as she did in her early days. She loves working from her home art
studio which overlooks the woods in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. When she isn't
dancing with her cat, Smokey (alias the Smokester, or Moke Moke), she paints and
personalizes her art in front of a crackling fire in the fireplace while sipping
a cup of steeping English tea or hot cocoa.
The wide selection and range of prices allows something for everyone. Both 
watercolor originals, which sell for $1,000 and up, and signed and numbered
lithographs are available and can be personalized in any manner desired.
Original caricatures start at $25 per character (a family of four would thus
cost $100), and extensive and elaborate original paintings will cost up to
$3,000. See more about Original Art.
You may purchase one of Gay's personalized water color cartoons through her Art & Soul Catalog, which may be ordered by email or
snail-mail at a cost of $3.00. You will receive a $5 refundable coupon
with each catalogue, to be
applied to your first order, and a $3.00 gift with every picture ordered. Your
order will be shipped within one week.
Contact Gay Zurich by email at
gmz@artandsoulinc.com or by telephone at
262-547-2625
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