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David N. Giles, Illustrator
Educator, former social service
worker, maintains a comprehensive memory,
star gazer, geology buff.
About David:
David Giles trained first
as an artist and served as a medical and
technical illustrator for the U.S. Army at
Tacoma, Washington and Heidelberg, Germany
during the Vietnam war. He later
earned a Graphic Design certificate at the
University of California, Davis.
Giles' paintings reflect
his lifetime study of northern California
history and geography. His oils are
moderately impressionistic, and like his
watercolors, flow with light. Samples
of his work are reproduced in note cards
which have received international acclaim.
From 1969-1991, Giles
worked for the Department of Social Services
and survived the stress by creating
distinctive cartoons. In 1989, after
contributing illustrations for Marjorie's
history book he and Marjorie formed the
Inkwell partnership and subsequently
married.
After several years of
substitute teaching, Giles realized he had
found his true calling and entered graduate
school in 1998 to obtain a full multiple
subject teaching credential. He
teaches Social Studies at a remote K-12 Gold
Country school alongside the Yuba River at
Downieville, CA.
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Marjorie B. Giles,
Author
Award-winning essayist, noted arts
reviewer and publisher. Former
research associate in biophysics and
virology.
About Marjorie:
Marjorie Giles studied
piano as a child, biology as a teenager, and
creative writing as an elder. While
working as a Research Associate in the
emerging discipline of biophysics at Yale
University, Marjorie contracted polio,
pregnant with her second child at the time.
She spent two years in recovery then went
back to work in virology at U.C. Berkeley, a
single mom using a wheelchair.
She retired from science
upon the birth of her third child and began
writing, eventually returning to school for
an English degree in creative writing.
As activists, Marjorie
and David founded a non-profit organization,
Enabled Artists United, to insure access for
all at educational, performance and
exhibition venues.
Marjorie has four novels
in progress, excerpts of which have appeared
in literary magazines. Her essay,
"Pelican," took 2nd place in the 1996
Writer's Digest Competition.
The Giles family lives in
northern California and includes four
children and five grandchildren. The
senior members credit their successes to a
practice of plain living, high thinking and
stargazing. Their lives and work focus
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