Gail Salzman is considered one of New England's most accomplished colorists. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and are represented in numerous private collections. She has been honored with a painting award from the NEA and grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Arts Endowment Fund.

Constantly evolving, Salzman's imagery has grown increasingly abstract while retaining its luminous color and painterly quality. In recent years the improvisational process of printmaking has engaged Salzman and informed her visual language. Various rolling and scraping techniques have enriched the layered surface that remains integral to her oil paintings as well as her monoprints and other works on paper.

Recent exhibits include New Turf, at Burlington's Fleming Museum. In the exhibition catalog, museum curator Evelyn Hankins wrote "Salzman's lush, intricate surfaces, meticulously built up and scraped down, seem to heave and surge in perpetual flux, recalling both the inner cadences of nature and the conversion of experience to memory."

Gail Salzman lives and works in northern Vermont, where the ever-changing environment outside her studio inspires a painterly response to the natural world.