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Dave and Gail Gilbert work together to build a life full of passion and creativity | By Nathan Walls
escribing someone’s home as a museum is usually a bad thing because it means that their place is cold and untouchable. Not so at the residence of Dave and Gail Gilbert. Their house on Towbridge Road in Fayetteville may be something of a museum, but it is anything but cold. Throughout the house are pictures created by Gail with
watercolors, pastels and oil paints as well as some of her acclaimed ceramics. As if that weren’t impressive enough, scattered about are Dave’s noteworthy bronze sculptures and handmade furniture. Both husband and wife, married for 31 years and the parents of six children, are respected artists. And that’s to say nothing of their day jobs. Dr. Dave Gilbert is a cardiologist at Ferncreek Cardiology in Fayetteville and Gail
is the office manager of the practice. Dave once combined his work and his hobby by sculpting a heart to use to teach his patients what was wrong with their own hearts. “It was so helpful, I decided I would do it in bronze,” Gilbert said. There are three copies of the two-and-a-half feet tall instructional piece and they
are used at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, the Bowman Gray campus of Wake Forest University and in Gilbert’s office.
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