Gail Santucci-Palacio studied art at the Maryland College of Art and Design and the Maryland Institute, College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore where she earned a BA in graphic design and later a Master’s in art and teaching. She taught art at the secondary school level for 11 years while working at The Royal Gazette as a graphic artist. She now teaches art at the Kaleidoscope Arts Foundation, a community art school. Her work has been used in a calendar as well as cover illustrations. She has exhibited at college, The Bermuda Arts Centre in Dockyard, the Bermuda Society of Arts and most recently at The Elliot Gallery at Kaleidoscope Arts Foundation. She says: “My art career has been intermingled with family life, its ups and downs, and now as a single parent of three beautiful daughters, I’m stepping out in faith, exploring all possibilities, while remembering, ‘Never to let your gift take you where your character can’t keep you’.”

	Artist's statement "Showing art again after many years, is a rebirth for me. Inside me are images that are fierce, joyful, sad, seductive, but I’ve started at my genesis. I’ve heard it said to a beginning writer, to write what you know and feel. In this work I find comfort with familiarity. I like to build things, to draw, to paint and write. ‘Feral Chickens?’ encompasses them all. "