Vicky Gooch

“If eyes are a window to the soul, then art is a window between souls”

Vicky Gooch paints fine art oil paintings using techniques of the old masters and impressionists. She uses high quality materials to create custom heirloom quality portraits and paintings. She paints a variety subjects, learning the most from direct observation. Vicky finds painting the human form to be the most rewarding. She enjoys the challenge of discovering the traits that make each person unique and bringing them to life through the art of painting. 

Even though creating artwork can be a solitary activity, Vicky believes that the best part of creating artwork is the opportunity to make a connection with other people. She enjoys collaborating with clients to bring their visions to life in a work of art. 

Affiliations:

Portrait Society of America

Oil Painters of America

National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society

Selected Awards:

2025 2025 Richeson75 Figure/Portrait International, online (Finalist) 

2023 National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Online (Merit Award)

2023 SWAN Day Juried Show, G Lee Gallery, Galveston TX (Best of Show)

2022 Portrait Society of America Members Only (8th place)

2017 Pearland Arts League Juried Exhibition 2017 (Best of Show)

Public Art:

2020 City of Pearland, Pearland Police Chief CJ Doyle, commission portrait 

2019 City of Pearland, Mayor Tom Reid of Pearland, commission portrait 

Selected Exhibitions:

2026 Age in Our Time, The Health Museum, Houston TX (juried show)

2024 Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church Invitational, Houston TX (solo exhibition)

2021 Bayou City Art Festival, Houston TX (juried festival)

2020 The Glass Fortress, Pearland Alliance for Art and Culture (solo exhibition)

2019 American Chinese Cultural Exchange Association Invitational Show

2014-19Faces of Dementia, 86 Drawings Pearland TX (solo exhibition-service project)

2017 The Glass Fortress, Cloisters Gallery, Houston TX (solo exhibition)

2017 Women Artists of the West, RS Hannah Gallery, Fredericksburg TX (juried show)

2015 Commerce Center Art Décor, Chamber of Commerce, Pearland, TX (solo exhibition) 

2015 China Minorities - American Perceptions, Cloisters Gallery, Houston TX (duo exhibition) 

Artist Statement

I create representational portrait paintings from life and photographs. I choose my subjects and my style because it allows for a connection between my subject, my viewers and me. 

My inspirational quote is “If eyes are a window to the soul, then art is a window between souls”. My artwork is full of people doing what people do in the important or mundane times of their lives. My satisfaction comes from being able to depict something in their moments that we can all understand. Tears from a widow, the beaming face of a mom or a lady on a beach where I’m painting shouting that she needs to “buy that painting” all tell me that I got it right. 

I look to the masters from Rembrandt and John Singer Sargent to Norman Rockwell and a wealth of living artists to provide substance for my improvement. Not just for painting style but also their focus on the human condition, from reverent to whimsical.  

My favorite art captures the mood and character of a subject or a scene and that’s what I’m trying to do whenever I paint.