WENDY DAVIS

I am Wendy Davis— a Pacific Northwest oil painter/artist. I actively create paintings using a bold expressionist style, and push for loose brush strokes, and dramatic movement throughout the painting. I often try to push the colors and exaggerate light and shadow. I enjoy doing cityscapes, architecture, aerial landscapes, with some animals thrown in for good measure!

I have been an artist since I was a kid—Drawing, painting, sewing, crafting. Anything I could do to create… I even sculpted tin cans.

I followed my heart into the arts that I considered “money making” and went to school for graphic design. I spent my career working in graphic design in Seattle, the Bay Area; San Francisco, East, South and North Bay for 15 years. Then moved to the Sierra Nevada foothills, and now back in the Pacific Northwest. I am proud to join the ranks of Pacific Northwest artists.

These past years I have taken up painting, a practice I hadn’t done since college. Once I got going, I wanted more. I had so much to learn and do.

I have been influenced by so many artists. I find myself drawn to the works of California artist Richard Diebenkorn, and the colors of Northwest Artist William Cummings (who was also my professor at Seattle Art Institute) among others. I am forever grateful to and inspired by Youtube. It answers so many painting questions!

I am also the current web designer / web-master for NOPG.

I attended:  Western Washington University, Seattle Art Institute

Galleries I have participated in: Art at the Cave Gallery, and Oregon Society of Artists Gallery

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