Wendy Artin

Wendy Artin works from her studio in Rome, Italy, where she has cultivated a practice centered on watercolor's unique capacity for capturing both permanence and fleeting moments. After studying at the Museum School in Boston and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris during an era that emphasized marks, gesture, and atmosphere, Artin embraced the portability of watercolor as her travels expanded across continents.

Artin works exclusively in watercolor on paper, often using sanguine pigments that allow her to explore the interplay between light and shadow on the human form. Her process involves careful observation of how forms emerge and dissolve through luminous washes of transparent color. Whether painting Laura's contemplative repose or Camilla's dynamic movement, Artin approaches each figure as a landscape to be explored, where quick watercolor puddles coalesce into recognizable forms that teeter on the edge of abstraction.

Through the streets of Rome, Paris, Barcelona, and beyond, Artin has developed an intimate understanding of how light defines form and mood. Her watercolors capture both the monumental quality of classical sculpture and the ephemeral nature of a gesture suspended in time. Each piece represents what she calls "a pilgrimage" across the surface of her subjects, transforming careful observation into calligraphic marks that describe entire figures with economical yet precise brushwork.