From her earliest days Wendy Kathleen’s could be found tumbling, flipping and twirling on the bars at home or on the school yard. To encourage her love of gymnastics, her parents enrolled her at the local Cathy Rigby gymnastics center. Wendy’s passion for gymnastics grew during the 1984 Olympics when she watched Mary Lou Retton vault her way to an all around gold medal. Wendy also around this time, devoured the made for TV movie about Nadia, which she watched so many times that the tape eventual wore out.

Today, Wendy has combined her passion and knowledge for gymnastic with her love of painting. Her favorite medium to work in is watercolor, to which she adds her own personal, ethereal touch not seen in traditional watercolors. Wendy chooses to focus her paintings exclusively on the main figure, with the background serving as a flow of billowing colors. Occasionally she will deviate from her trademark free flowing ethereal backgrounds, to a background wash in salt, with a touch of faerie dust. Wendy’s desire is to illustrate to the viewer the beauty, energy, balance, grace and strength of the gymnast.

Wendy juggles her time between painting, running her art business and teaching high school art. Any free time she has left is spent with her husband Brian and puppy Woolfgang. You can still find her on occasion, demonstrating to the neighborhood kids how to do a cartwheel or flip. You can also still find her watching the Nadia movie on weekends, which she recently re-bought. Wendy Kathleen believes not only in hard work and perseverance for success, but also in the reality of dreaming. It is there that the true gymnastics dreamz begin.