Gay Jefferson is a watercolorist and printmaker who works primarily with the foliage and flora of Hawaiʻi as her imagery. After catching a first impression on location, she returns to the studio to complete her work, interweaving reality with memory and invention.
A native New Yorker, Gay came to the Hawaiian Islands in 1965. She has studied painting with Hiroki Morinoue and Robert E. Wood, among others, and has taught classes in watercolor at the Honolulu Academy of Arts since 1992.
Her paintings and fine art prints are in the collections of the Bank of Hawaii, the Persis Collection, the Honolulu Academy of Arts and The Contemporary Museum.
She is also the mother of our founder, Steve Jefferson.
