Wanda Westberg

Wanda Westberg, a Berkeley artist, has established a reputation as one of the Bay Area's fine traditional plein-air landscape painters. Growing up in the Midwest with its unpredictable weather and changeable seasons, she 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. Point Reyes, China Camp, Marin Headlands, Tilden Park and Briones Valley are all favorite places where she paints “alla prima” the quickly changing scenes she sees before her. A graduate of UCLA with an honors degree in English, Wanda has studied with many well-known painters including Bob Gerbracht, Van Waldron, Brian Blood, Kevin Macpherson, and Randall Sexton. In addition to landscape painting, she enjoys painting still-life, florals and is studying the figure.