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...The game of golf taught Nubia how to live her life. “I found solitude and meditation in the sport. Golf has always been a game that brings me to the point of quietness. And if you are truly in the moment, you enjoy the sounds too. There is conversation and laughter that goes along with the game. It’s not just about the score but about getting together and making real connections.”

Our connections today can be very superficial. We are so involved with email, texting and posting that real conversation is fleeting. It’s hard to get time for oneself. It’s difficult to spend quality time with a friend, family member or colleague. Playing 18 holes of golf together is a luxury. “I find it very refreshing,” says Nubia. “Going out and hitting balls sometimes changes my whole perspective of what is going on in my life at the moment.”

Nubia also combines her work with pleasure. You might find her out on the golf course early, breathing in the images, sounds and smells of the course.  She takes the impressions with her back to the studio and onto the canvas. Afterwards she’ll play a round of golf. And while playing, she observes how the golf course changes through the day. The inspiration she gets from golf and the courses help inspire her abstract paintings. In fact, Nubia says she’s begun to change colors now. While her recent work is filled with splashes of color and lots of reds, she’s is creating an abstract series that depicts the spirit of golf through a range of colors – from the natural colors of the landscape to the splashes of color worn by golfers on the course. This series will be on display in her studio-gallery in Katy."

excerpt from Women On Course:  Nubia Gala

  full story:
http://www.womenoncourse.com/tales/2012/08/member-focus-nubia-gala-seibert-2/