Greg Gearlds was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1968 and has lived in the central Indiana area ever since. After graduating from New Palestine High School in 1986, he entered the workforce and subsequently moved all things creative to the back-burner.

Although on the back-burner, creative endeavors couldn’t be completely held back. While supporting his family through a corporate IT career, he managed to keep painting a little bit, exploring photography and doing some writing; even winning a few awards along the way. It is and has been a constant battle between the internal pull and desire to create and the need to provide. In 2012, Greg decided that his creative juices could no longer simmer on the back burner and, although he could not “quit his day job,”  he began making time to create. 

Greg is primarily a self taught artist (degree from YouToubery) who loves learning about the craft of painting, the history of painting and other painters. He loves the act of creating something that has never existed and will never exist unless he creates it. His mind and body almost demand the physical act of creating, whether that be painting, writing or working with clay. “The feeling of the brush in my hand or molding a ball of clay into some other shape is somehow healing or therapeutic for me. I don’t pretend to understand the science behind that, I just know that it is true.” 

Greg’s work varies from completely abstract to more impressionistic to slightly representational. He is not a big fan of labels; he prefers to just call them art. He uses different materials to create his works (a kitchen fork is used in almost all of my paintings) and tries to work with the guidelines of “there are no rules.”