For Gail Factor, painting was a means to access serenity, a calm soul. Artists throughout history have created bodies of work in an effort to solve their personal aesthetic dilemma. Laid at the feet of Factor’s quandary is a life’s work. The unrelenting impulse to create something of beauty and personal truth that resulted in five decades of focused and committed painting; a daily offering of sorts, whereby the act itself generated luminosity and eradicated darkness.