International Importing Mary Lou Wilhelm
Phone: 541-815-3356
Watercolors P.O. Box 860
Gilchrist, Or.
97737

I have been painting or drawing all my life, and with dad sleeping all afternoon and working nights, us kids had to be quiet. Mom built me a desk with apple crates, a board and curtains, kept me supplied with paints of all kinds left over from painting cars to houses. We didn’t have a TV so this gave me more time (after school work of course).

I was as you might say aged along with the famous Tillamook Cheese, dad working there days, and after I graduated from high school I took tours through the work areas until I married. During my school years I painted on everything I could find, oyster shells to old whisky jugs and even put flames on my car fenders. After marrying a sailor and moving back and forth between Calif. and Tillamook, dragging my sketches along with the kids diapers,(about twice a year,) we settled down in Calif. for three years where I had no time to paint, only on the walls of their rooms. When we retired I painted in earnest, selling enough to buy more supplies and go to all the workshops I could find and classes near by. Then I taught an Elder Hostel for three summers there in Garibaldi, Oregon where we lived for the rest of our life together and the kids flew away from home. I became the resident artist in the Port of Tillamook Bay, and supervised the Art dept of the Tillamook County Fair for about eight years . When we started going south to San Felipe, I taught sporatic classes and sold my work in Art festivals along the way. By this time I had been accepted into and juried into two transparent {only} shows of the Watercolor Society of Oregon. Of which I am still a member in good standing.


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I drag my watercolors all over the U.S. Just for what purpose I cannot say only that I want to paint! I still slam on breaks and turn around just for a good sketch. The year I broke my ankle, or I should say my dog tripped me, I filled two inch thick sketch books with memories of a Christmas with a daughter

and family camping in a campground. This was when I really crafted my drawing skills. I now go out on location and set up my easle and give my dingo dog water and we paint for hours. Drawing courious people from all over the world. What more can I ask for? You will see us from Gilchrist, Oregon, San Felipe Baja, Mx. to Puerto Penasco, and Guaymas Mex. to Durango Colorado and all points in between.
I have been teaching watercolor to a group of Mexican children now and I also have a watercolor class I teach each week at the Eldorado Ranch, located south of the border in San Felipe, Baja Mex. Plus a on-location paintout each week in the town or out on the ranches or at the port.

My home is Oregon and I paint all over the state, visiting my friends and collecting rocks along the way. You will see my work in the La Pine library , where I held a one woman show in 2004 and am in a group hanging there in 2005. Paintings of Fort Rock and the famous Round Barn near French Glenn. Just this month my work was juried into the Redmond Airport show where you can see it till January 2006, and I have started 120ft. mural in Chemult, Oregon to be finished May 2006.


Mary Lou Wilhelm


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