Wendy Weldon began playing with paint as a young girl in her mother’s art studio on an Indiana farm. Later, she studied painting at the Boston Museum School, Silvermine College of Art, CT, and at Bard College, NY. She has been working as a professional artist for over 50 years, knowing from the very beginning that color was her ultimate strength. 

For many years, her paintings were primarily focused on color-fields, featuring architectural hints of doors and windows—mysterious spaces that she mostly left unexplored. Eventually, she began to focus on those hidden areas, which made her paintings more personal and specific. As her palette shifted, her work gained more structure and less mystery. Fascinated by artifacts, religious icons, and unusual stones, she still features her personal collection of these objects in her paintings from time to time.

Weldon’s work includes a wide range of personal imagery, from rectangular and circular shapes to beds, lamps, stairs, and lintels. She also paints stones in land and sea walls, birds, leaves, and barns of all sizes set against different color fields. After moving to Dartmouth three years ago, some of her focus has been the Apponagansett Quaker Meeting House in Russells Mills. While her images frequently change, the intensity of her color remains constant. Through her art, she documents journeys and events, honors lost friends and explores the physical and emotional relationships between interior and exterior spaces. Her work consists of acrylics on canvas and paper, mixed media monotypes, encaustics, and drawings. She also uses gold and copper leaf.

Weldon has been showing her artwork on the Vineyard since the 1970’s. Her island resume is a chronology of galleries, and exhibit spaces from one end to the other over six decades. Today, she spends her days painting in her studio in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, with her dogs as her constant companions.