New Zealand born Gay Rossiter has been involved with the arts since an early age.  After a very successful twenty-five year career in stage and costume design she is now concentrating on painting and sculpting full-time.

Oil paints are her preferred medium where a combination of mixing and blending of tints are as important to her as preparation of the painting boards using layers of gesso.  She is self taught having carried out extensive research into methods used by the old masters.

Due to public demand for her work, Gay occasionally paints with quicker drying acrylics which offer an opportunity to capture the "mood of the moment", but her impasto technique with oils gives a vibrancy to her painting of children, flowers, farm animals and poultry, especially her flamboyant roosters which are hugely popular.

In sculpting, Gay creates the original works from which she makes her own moulds, the final pieces are then cast in bonded powdered marble.  She is currently working on a series of limited editions.  Her art is sort after by the New Zealand public and is also is private collections in Britain, Canada, Australia and Asia.

Gay's philosophy on her work is "in painting, I enjoy creating vibrant and colourful works of art, while in sculpting it is form and texture which attracts - in both cases, my subjects are ones which everybody knows and loves and that hopefully will continue to give people much pleasure for many years to come".