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​Gil Sanchez
I am a 48 years old self-taught artist.  Born in El Salvador, I came to the California in 1990, where I worked and learned the English language.  I moved to Naples in 1993, where I have been living ever since.  
I have always liked to draw and paint, skills that came naturally to me,
drawing and painting takes me to another place where I let lose my imagination. But I only took it as a hobby because I was afraid of criticism from people other than family and friends.
I have worked as a carpenter and a handyman, both jobs used the material Bondo, mainly known for its use in auto body and wood repairs.  I became quite skilled at using this material and soon I started to make small figures just for fun, but once again I did not take it seriously.
 
On March 21, 2016.  I was working on a construction site as a superintendent. That day I was performing a roof inspection with the city inspector and a few other coworkers. Somehow, I fell from a roof, four stories down an unfinished section of the roof.  After almost 4 months in the hospital. I am blessed and grateful to be alive. I am now physically limited in what I can do.  I have pain but have learned to live with it. I have been given a second chance at life.  No longer able to work construction, as soon as I felt strong enough, I started to paint.   I have painted many pieces and most of them, I gave away.  By chance I took on a few sculptures in need of restoration; A life-sized sea turtle, a jaguar and a blue heron. In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, I decided to try to make my own life-sized sculpture from scratch.  I sculpted a tortoise and an elf for my daughter, expanding to a great horned owl, which when finished, was exactly as I had pictured it in my mind.  I was now ready to show my work to strangers and so I did.  I did not get the criticism I was so afraid of ether. Now I work on my art every day, pushing the limits of my body and my imagination.  There is never enough sunlight in a day, I have pain, it is always there. but in working on my art it is easier to ignore I am a father and my kids are my reason for living and to continue pushing myself until I can do it no more.

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  • Artist A-L
    • Lisa Batch
    • Laura Black
    • Shirley Blake
    • Tyrone Burnett Jr.
    • Laura Buxo
    • Rebecca Christopher
    • Edward Coster
    • Lillian Coury
    • Tammy Cox
    • JoAnne Crowson
    • Tracy Owen-Cullimore
    • Sherry DeGennaro
    • Stan Dzedzy
    • John Edebohls
    • MaryPat Everist
    • Anna Franklin
    • Lorri Freedman
    • Maureen Gerrity
    • Francine Gerson
    • Carmen Guevara
    • Mary Ann Habermeyer
    • Shirley Hales
    • Gia Hammond
    • Karen Harris
    • Maria E Hart
    • Rose Jung
    • Michael Krakow
    • Sunny Krchmar
    • Harold Kurzman
    • Judy Ladd
    • Wayne & Elaine Lefebvre
    • Joe Licci
  • Artist M - Z
    • Linda Mack
    • Jacqueline Marth
    • Gail Martin
    • Linda McDonough
    • Cherie Mulcahy
    • Christine Music
    • Dorothea Neumann
    • Sveta Osborne
    • Barrett Pastor
    • Dean Perrus
    • Tracy Pospeck
    • Sonya Rasmussen
    • Elaine Rath
    • Barbara Reece
    • Phyllis Rieser
    • Stacey Roush
    • Gil Sanchez
    • Sue Schaffel
    • Alden Schutte
    • Gale Shamblott
    • Martin Sherman
    • Sandy Smyth
    • Linda Stasiak
    • Barbara L. Sykes
    • Madeline Sugerman
    • Renata Vigoda
    • Theresa Webb
    • Garry Scott Wheeler
    • Mike Ziegler
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