Gale Pitt was born in 1938 and grew up in a village called Thornhaugh, in the Lincolnshire countryside. As an only child, living deep in the countryside, she had a solitary childhood and started to fill her days with painting and drawing from an early age. After studying English literature at Oxford University, she decided to pursue a full-time career as an artist despite the fact that she had no formal art training. She was constantly creating new images and never seemed to be stuck for fresh ideas. Nothing escaped her observation, and her rich imagination transformed the world around her into a buzzing hive of fun, intrigue, and activity.