“My art is born more from a sense of touch than from sight.  Drawing from a model or object before me is like climbing a mountain as opposed to viewing it from afar.... I need to feel I have touched the solid form.”

“Gerry’s figures seem alive...a dimension beyond realism.”
George Palovich, Former Curator, West Valley Art Museum

PUBLISHED

“Spiritual Art in Hospitals” by Charles Kelly, Arizona Republic, 2005
“Painting From Sense of Touch” by Curtis Grippe, Arizona Republic, 2002
Best of Watercolor, Rockport Publishers, Inc., 2002
Celebrating 40 Years of Watermedia Fine Arts, AWA Books, 2001
Splash 6: The magic of Texture, North Light Books, 2000
Best of Watercolor: Composition, Rockport Publishers, 1997
Best of Watercolor: Texture, Rockport Publishers, 1997
“Art Goes Back to Nature” by Connie Sexten, Arizona Republic, 1997
"Gerry Grout: West Valley Art Museum Exhibit," Ashes Art Review, 1997
"Artist Profile" by Eileen Bailey, Arizona Republic, 1995
"Featured Artist: Mike Garrett," West Valley View, 1994
Linear Images of the Living Figure, by Gerry Grout, Thunderbird Art Press, 1994

PROFESSIONAL ART AFFILIATIONS

West Valley Fine Arts Council, Honorary Board and Founders Circle Member
Arizona Watercolor Association, Juried Member
Arizona Artists Guild, Juried Member and Hall of Fame Member
San Diego Watercolor Society
Phoenix Art Museum, Docent (1979-1986)

ART EDUCATION

Studied art at the University of San Diego, Phoenix College, Scottsdale Artists
School and Colorado’s Anderson Art Ranch.  Workshops with New York Artist,
Robert Kushner, San Diego Artist, George Nicolaides, and Los Angeles Artist, Carol Katchen

SOLO EXHIBITIONS