During her university years, Wendy refined and expanded her skills through her own studies. After taking a number of college art classes, she decided not to major in art so that her passion and love for art would stay fresh and uncontrived. Wendy did receive a degree in English and M.A. in Education from Pepperdine University.

Today, Wendy juggles her time between painting, running her art business and teaching high school art. Along with all this, Wendy finds time to relax, ice skate and snowboard with her husband and soul mate Brian; who she married in August of 2003, during an outdoor evening, candlelit garden wedding, complete with her very own faerie flower girl. Wendy paints and works out of her home studio in the O.C. where she lives with her hubby and little dachshund Woolfgang.

Wendy’s favorite medium is watercolor, to which she adds her own personal, ethereal touch not seen in traditional watercolors. Wendy chooses to focus her paintings almost exclusively on the main figure, with the background serving as a flow of billowing colors, with which to move the viewers’ eye along the image. Occasionally she will deviate from her trademark free flowing ethereal backgrounds, to a background wash in salt, with a touch of faerie dust.

To invoke the muse, Wendy favors cold, gray, raining days and evenings by candle light, along with the music of Tori Amos, Loreena McKennitt, Emilie Autumn, and various movie soundtracks. “Painting for me is a very spiritual experience. It is like breathing, for I require both for living. I wish for my art to bring beauty, reflection, mystery, contemplation and the feeling of the divine to people’s lives."

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