Wendy Artin is an American painter who lives in Rome, Italy.  She received an MFA in painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and studied for two years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.  Ms. Artin spent a great deal of time traveling and living abroad, both as a child and as a young adult, always drawing and painting in streets and museums.  Her work is figurative and classical, and explores the timeless interaction of light with surfaces such as the human figure and Roman ruins.

Wendy Artin’s watercolors are precise, loose, intense. "Watercolor is a living medium whose beauty lies in its incredible range, from the pigments flowing across a wet page to a scant brushstroke bumping along a slightly rough surface, letting the paper breathe.”

“I paint to pay tribute to the beauty that I see, to remember how the light was making puddles of shadows, how the tree trunks punctuated the sky.  I try to keep the materials I use fresh, the marks active and varied.  I love the way watercolor washes and spreads, the way charcoal grazes the surface of the paper. The picture I make is somewhere between what the real thing looks like and what the materials look like, loose and precise.  I often have to paint the same subject over and over, until there is the right combination of freshness and detail.  And then the sunlight moves, the shadows change, and there is a totally new image.”

Wendy Artin has lived and painted in Boston, New York, Mexico, Guatemala, Paris, and Rome.  She has exhibited in Boston, Paris, New York, Milan, London and Rome. Her work has been featured in L’Art de l’Aquarelle, American Artist Magazine, Artscope, Pratique des Arts, Arts Magazine, Gourmet, Artsmedia, Elle Decoration, Cote Sud, French Vogue, Elle, Joyce, Carnet, The Boston Globe, the New York Post and Vanity Fair.  A film on Artin has been featured on  Bravo’s Arts and Minds.  She has been a Visiting Artist several times at the American Academy in Rome.  Her work is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Public Library, Fondation Colas, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Isabelle Adjani, John Guare and Adele Chatfield-Taylor, Gustavus Remak Ramsay, Richard Leacock, Valerie Lalonde and Jacques Grange, Eric Fischl and April Gornik, Thom Mayne.

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