About The Artist

Jolyn Wells-Moran is a plein air and studio painter who lives in the Pacific Northwest and also travels to paint. She studied at the Institute for American Universities, School of Drawing and Painting, Aix-en-Provence, France; Gage Academy of Fine Art , Seattle, WA; and with many well-known masters. She has shown her work in galleries and other juried venues for the past 10 years, winning awards and certificates. She completed college art courses in Design, several in Painting, Drawing and Art History. She taught drawing and watercolor courses for a community college in her twenties. In 2004, she began painting in oils and attended the Marchutz School of Drawing and Painting, Institute for American Universities, Aix-en-Provence, France, in 2004. Her instructors since then have included such teaching artists as Michael Situ, Kathryn Stats, Eric Jacobsen, Mitch Albala, Slava Koralenkov, Russian impressionist, Kathryn Townsend and Jill Carver. Wells-Moran has shown in many juried shows, including; those run by the California Art Club, the annual PAWA juried show at the American Art Co. in Tacoma, the Port Angeles Center for the Arts’ Plein Air Competition, the Edmonds Arts Festival and galleries in the Pacific Northwest and Mexico, and other venues. Her work has been presented in six solo shows in Seattle, including ArtsWest in West Seattle and she has won awards in several local, national and international exhibitions. She is a Signature Member and President of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Artists (PSGNA) – a professional artists’ juried group operating since 1928 -- Women Artists of the West (WAOW), and Plein Air Washington Artists (PAWA). See Jolyn’s website at https://jwellsmoran.com. Upcoming in-person and online shows are listed there too. In-person studio visits may be arranged by contacting her through email at jowellsmoran@gmail.com.