Wendy Hallstrom is a multimedia artist living in Western New Jersey. An engineer by training and for a first career, she has transitioned to full time artist. 
Wendy has had a lifelong love affair with visual arts of all kinds and has explored a variety of media before concentrating on watercolor painting. She has studied a variety of media under teaching artists on the East coast, eventually concentrating on watercolor. In the early 2000’s, Wendy began focusing on watercolor, and has progressed to teaching watercolor in addition to her own painting.
Wendy finds the unpredictability of watercolor to be fascinating and a challenge. When the paint does something surprising, the creative challenge is to use this unexpected result to enhance her vision for the piece. For the past 5 years, she has been focusing on the exploration of color, layering and negative space. The many ways to mix, layer, and create tension with color are exciting. Combining this with negative space results in strong values and interesting depths of color in her paintings.
In addition to watercolor, Wendy paints in acrylic using the mediums to express contemporary political statements. She writes icons with egg tempera in the traditional manner.
Wendy has taught painting to adults and children at several art centers in Central New Jersey. She also leads workshops in the folk art of Pysanky in both Central New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania.
Memberships - Garden State Watercolor Society, Signature member
Recent Exhibitions
2025 Tewksbury Historical Society Juried Show
2025 Garden State Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibition
2025 We the People Installation, Garden State Watercolor Society
2025 North East Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibition
2025 Garden State Watercolor Society Small But Mighty Show
2024 Garden State Watercolor Society Members Exhibition
2024 Garden State Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibition
2024 Center for Contemporary Art International Juried Exhibition
2023 Tewksbury Historical Society Juried Exhibition, Honorary Mention
2023 Center for Contemporary Art, Members Juried Exhibition
2023 Garden State Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibition
2023 Endangered Species installation, Garden State Watercolor Society
2022 Garden State Watercolor Annual Society Juried Exhibition
2022 Draw the Line on War installation, Garden State Watercolor Society
2022 Center For Contemporary Art, Members Show, Honorary Mention
2021 Garden State Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibition