ARTIST

Willamarie was born in Covington, Kentucky in 1959. She moved with her family to Canada at 12 and lived in northern Alberta Canada for several years. Several days after graduating from the University of Utah in 1982 with BS in Civil Engineering she began painting in earnest. The next three years she lived and painted in Alaska while working as an engineer. In 1984 she moved to Europe where she painted and traveled as well as going to school in Perugia Italy to learn Italian. She returned to the University of Utah and in 1990 graduated again from the U of U, this time with a BFA in painting and drawing. Her paintings have been exhibited and won awards in many national and local juried shows, as well as 12 solo exhibitions. For nine years she has been teaching watercolor painting and experimental watermedia painting in the Lifelong Learning Program at the University of Utah, as well as teaching an autumn plein-air painting workshop in Portofino Italy. During the year she offer several outdoor painting landscape workshops, in the mountains of Albion Basin, at the historic mining community of Park City at the Red Butte Arboretum in Salt Lake City, in Zion National Park, and in Spring City, Utah. Three times she has won "Best of Show" in the Utah watercolor society's annual show, as well as many awards in juried national competitions. Her paintings have been reproduced in the following books; Flowers in Watercolor, Floral Inspirations, and The Best of Watercolor 2000, published by Rockport Publishers in Massachusetts; The Encyclopedia of Watercolor Landscape Techniques, Painting Great Paintings From Photographs; published by Quarto publishers of London. Artists of Utah; published by Gibbs Smith, in Salt Lake City, UT, 1999. Utah Homes & Garden Magazine, Autumn, 2001. In 1998 I wrote an article for the spring issue of Watercolor Magazine. My work may be seen at the Worthington Gallery in Springdale, the Coda Gallery in Park City, and the Utah Artist Hands Gallery in Salt Lake City, Utah. More than 1000 works hang in private and corporate collections, including the Salt Lake Community College and Delta Airlines Crown Room at the Salt Lake International Airport.