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For Giles, painting is less about precision and more about emotion. Each canvas is a meditation, poured and layered to let the colors speak their own truth. He calls his process “letting the paint remember for me.” In his hands ,Mississippi’s landscapes, histories, and moods become abstract maps — alive with intensity, but softened by the wisdom of a life fully lived.

Giles calls his designs “maps of memory.” They are not meant to be literal, but rather impressions stitched together — fragments of experience, faith, and the patient act of looking back. Each hanging is a meditation on persistence: the persistence of land, of people, and of the desire to create beauty even when life has been lived in other directions first.

Collectors often remark that his work glows with resilience: a reminder that
creativity has no timetable, and that even late in life, the impulse to make
beauty can ignite like sunlight over fields at dawn.

Giles’ work feels both deeply Southern and universally human. In the
abstract, viewers find their own echoes — storms, songs, struggles, and a kind
of hard-earned joy. His art is not about speed or trend, but about arriving
late to something essential, and discovering that creativity, like Mississippi soil....... still has more to give.

Above all, Giles hopes his work is enjoyed not as puzzles to be solved, but as moments to be felt. He wants those who stand before his canvases to linger, to breathe, and to see something of themselves reflected in the colors. Whether it sparks memory, comfort, or simple delight, his greatest wish is that each viewer carries a little of that light away with them.