Wanda Westberg

Suisun Marsh

10" x 12" oil

$800

Wanda Westberg, a Berkeley artist, has established a reputation as one of the Bay Area's finest traditional plein-air landscape painters. She paints outside, capturing in her wonderful paintings the beauty that is this special area....oak studded hillsides, the red splash of pickle weed in a low wetlands beside the bay, the many moods and seasons of Mt. Tam, our lovely landmark.

Point Reyes, China Camp, the Marin Headlands, Tilden Park and Briones Valley are all favorite places where she sets up her easel and sets to canvas the quickly changing scenes she sees before her. In addition to landscapes, Wanda enjoys painting sill-life and florals and is pursuing the study of the figure.

A graduate of UCLA with an honors degree in English, Wanda's art education includes courses at UCLA in watercolor, acrylic and oil painting. She has studied with many well-known painters including J. Thomas Soltesz, Bob Gerbracht, Van Waldron, Brian Blood, Randall Sexton and Kevin Macpherson.

March at Suisun

11" x 14" oil

$950

Growing up in the Midwest with its unpredictable weather and changeable seasons, Wanda Westberg is content to paint outdoors, continuing in the tradition of the early California impressionists. Bringing her oil paints and canvas out where the fresh air carries the sounds and scents of a rural scene, the clouds shift in color and shape, and the hills are still scattered with native oaks, she captures the fleeting moods of color and light of familiar northern California landscapes.

Now living in Berkeley, she finds inspiration in Tilden and Briones Parks and the scenery along Wild Cat Canyon and Bear Creek Road. In Marin County Point Reyes, China Camp and Marin Headlands are favorite places where she loves to paint and be a part of nature.