Wendy Everett’s professional art career began many years ago when at the age of 16 the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C chose her to participate in a student exhibit and a congressman’s wife promptly purchased her artwork. IN 1996, the Smithsonian, with Discover Card, honored Wendy AGAIN by asking her to be their on-air spokesperson to celebrate the Smithsonian’s 150th anniversary. Wendy APPEARED ON TELEVISION and radio across the COUNTRY teaching Americans how to express their creativity with family crafts.
Wendy received a double B.A. in Fine Arts and Education at Michigan State University where she was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key. She earned her Masters Degree at Fairfield University in Connecticut, during which she studied at the Scuolo Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, in a studio where Michelangelo had once worked. Wendy is a member of the National Arts Club in New York.
Wendy has also made major accomplishments in the world of design. She created best-sellers for Simplicity, McCall’s and Vogue-Butterick pattern companies. Her designs for “Barbie”, “Cabbage Patch”, “Care Bear” and “E.T.” products have been successfully marketed in the U.S. and internationally.
Wendy’s career changes have allowed her to excel in diverse areas, and she has written books on each to share her EXPERIENCES WITH a wider audience. Her books include, Active Bulletin Boards for teachers, The Great Gift Book for crafters and The M Club which promotes the healing power of enzymes. She is currently writing a series of entertaining children's stories about her miniature schnauzer, Cupcake.
Wendy’s polo art has brought her the most attention from GALLERIES and collectors. Yet her artwork runs the gamut from mermaids, flowers and butterflies to sailing, SHELLS and the sea. Greenwich Polo honored her with a one-woman show and chose one of her paintings for the cover of their 15th anniversary magazine, with a feature article about her entitled, “The Picasso of Polo.” Equine Image Magazine and Polo Player’s Edition Magazine have also published articles about her and her artwork.
Wendy'S “Polo Triptych,” a set of three canvases that measure 11’ by 5’, is whimsically based on the colors of a peacock's tail feather. George du Pont, the director of the International Polo Museum in Palm Beach, was so enamored with it that it now hangs there, decorating an entire wall of the museum’s library. A 4'X5' piece, ‘Polomania’ is also installed in the Museum.
At the Polo Expo in Las Vegas Wendy was one of 25 artists chosen in a Worldwide competition to create a life-size polo player to auction IN ORDER to raise money to bring polo back to the Olympics. Since polo is the "game of kings" Wendy made her statue in the likeness of King Tut with quotes from royalty written in gold leaf hieroglyphics all over his body. Before they were auctioned, these statues were on display at JFK airport. Wendy provided the hieroglyphic Key to the waiting passengers, humorously suggesting that if their flight was delayed, they could busy themselves deciphering the quotes.
Wendy was chosen to be the “face of polo” by Near and Far aID of Connecticut, a charity organization that holds a polo classic at the Fairfield County Hunt Club. Each year, they use one of Wendy’s colorful polo pieces for the invitation and advertising. Wendy also decorates the entire Hunt Club with her polo paintings for the event.
Wendy became active in Paul Newman’s ‘Hole in the Wall Gang’ polo gala, held at the greenwich polo club, to help raise funds so that kids with cancer could go to this amazing camp. In 2008, Wendy used the image of ‘Polomania’ to design a limited edition of 80 silk scarves, personally signed by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.
Part of the intrigue of Wendy’s art is her unique process of using precious metals such as gold, silver, copper and palladium on her canvases. Wendy admires the late Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, who is most famous for his painting ‘The Kiss.” This inspired her to devise a way to incorporate these metals into her work. Her art is similar to Klimt’s, in that it is very linear and uses flat design elements with minimal shading.
Ronald Lauder paid a record breaking price for a painting of Klimt’s, buying the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer for $135 million so that he could install it in his New York Museum, the Neue Gallery. This painting had been confiscated by the Nazis during World War II, eventually ending up in an Austrian Museum. Amazingly, Mr. Lauder was able to return the piece to Adele’s granddaughter, to whom he then paid the unprecedented price to procure it for the ‘Neue' . THIS STORY IS RECREATED IN THE MOVIE 'WOMAN IN GOLD'.
Inspired by the artists Klimt, Monet, O’Keefe, Seurat and others, Wendy created her “Mermaid Series”. in the group of 3’ by 5’ canvases based on the same mermaid, wendy references her favorite artists to make each one unique. her mermaids Can be appreciated in two ways, first for their aesthetic beauty and secondly for their art history challenge. for exact references, refer to the MISCELLANEOUS gallery.
wendy also loves to use music in her art. she has created a series of five birch tree landscapes which incorporate the five movements of mozart's missa brevis in c, which is nicknamed the 'sparrow mass' since the violins sound like chirping birds. the musical notes and singing birds made WENDY think of birch trees, several of which SHE collaged with mozart's music to mimic the dots of the birch tree knots. though similar, each composition of trees, gold leafed water and silver leafed sky IS different -- literal compositions within compositions.