Who Is Gayle Winde?
Diverse creative endeavors spanning from Seattle to Nashville encompass Gayle Winde's art and design career. With artistic flair and her personalized leather-inlay technique, she has gained worldwide recognition for multidimensional leatherwork. Earlier creative years were dedicated to a variety of art media, eventually designing Wearable Art at her gallery in Seattle's legendary Pike Place Market. Opportunities arose in 2003, leading to specialized work in the music industry, designing customized leather guitar and bass straps for musicians globally. Gayle's imaginative leatherwork continues to flourish and now expands into Mixed Media Art that is rich in color, texture, and authenticity. Each art piece is created by hand utilizing knowledge, experience, and skill. Beginning in 2020 to the present, Gayle has been attending the renowned Art2Life Creative Visionary Program and the Art2Life Art Academy, founded by California-based fine artist Nicholas Wilton. Her mixed media art has been developing behind the scenes and will soon be on the website. We are very excited to share these pieces with you. Art such as collaged leather paintings, leather masks, sculpted 3-D art, and smaller works will be available for both enjoyment and purchase.
A Bit of History
Gayle's work has been featured in Seattle's tourist publications, various online art sites, the Pacific Northwest's "Sunset Magazine", and well-known guitar shows. Her beautiful guitar straps are worn by musicians such as Bluesman, Coco Montoya, the amazing slide guitarist, Roy Rogers, Lawrence Hightower good friend and fantastic bass musician, Jared Followill, bass player for Sons of Leon, Nashville's own Phillip Sweet, from the band "Little Big Town", and the great musician and songwriter, the late Steve Cropper, wearing his custom straps at President Obama's "Soul Night Gala" at the White House! These are a few of many professional musicians that Gayle has had the pleasure of working with. Her love for art, her craft, and music became a natural fusion, leading her to where she is today.
Our Strap Design
Gayle Winde guitar straps are well respected within today's musicians' marketplace. The purpose of this excellent design was to provide outstanding comfort, functionality, and beautiful style options for guitarists. It all started with the design of the core structure of the strap itself. With detailed research and development, she began developing a strap pattern that focused on excellent fit, proper balance between the instrument and the musician, strap comfort, outstanding style options, and luxurious beauty. Reaching out to musicians directly was critical, since common issues with standard market straps were evident. Inquiring what they would need and want in a good strap led to the "Perfect Guitar Strap Wish List". Utilizing this valuable information, Gayle designed and incorporated it into her exclusive master strap design. Prototypes were created, and small adjustments were made, refining the master pattern even further until a final draft was accomplished; the rest is history! Today, our straps continue to maintain our "original core design" with authentic Gayle Winde leather art options available. Our guitar and bass straps are still providing the ultimate in comfort, functionality, and luxurious quality they are renowned for.
Looking Ahead
Years of dedication and artistic vision have established Gayle Winde as a true artisan with an incredible collection of work. We hope you'll experience the caliber of our amazing guitar straps and mixed media artwork. Every great guitar needs an amazing strap, and every home or business deserves incredible artwork. Gayle's unwavering commitment toward excellence is certainly a welcome change in our world of mass-produced merchandise. At Gayle Winde, fine craftsmanship revisits the importance of creating with integrity, quality, and pride ... this is our mantra!
Where Distinction, Beauty, and Comfort Merge
