Maggie Vandewalle

Maggie Vandewalle was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1981 she received an art scholarship to the University of Iowa where she worked toward a BFA in printmaking. After college, she gravitated to watercolor, a medium she uses almost exclusively today. She recalls a childhood divided between two passions: an insatiable love of reading and a profound fascination with the natural world. These early interests are the foundation for her paintings of whimsical creatures; whose antics often...See more

Maggie Vandewalle was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1981 she received an art scholarship to the University of Iowa where she worked toward a BFA in printmaking. After college, she gravitated to watercolor, a medium she uses almost exclusively today. She recalls a childhood divided between two passions: an insatiable love of reading and a profound fascination with the natural world. These early interests are the foundation for her paintings of whimsical creatures; whose antics often elicit a smile or a feeling that one has walked into the middle of a remarkable story. As an artist she depicts animals and their environments realistically but with quirks, a bit of humor and always with great respect. See less