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Glenda Farmer

I was born and raised in southeastern New Mexico and have always been a native of the Southwest. After a move to Arizona in 1980, I began to take advantage of the art education available to me and it started something that could not be stopped. I took numerous and varied art classes for many years, having many different instructors, each adding a layer of knowledge and skill to the artist I would become. I have a personal thanks, appreciation, and gratitude for each of them.

I have been involved in many creative endeavors throughout my life, including building artificial boulders integrated into the landscape plans for two of my homes in Arizona. I have designed and fabricated complex window treatments, built miniature furniture for a doll house and was part owner in an interior design firm. I have worked as a new product designer in the stone and tile industry, developing one-of-a-kind products for residential and commercial installations. This led to designing tradeshow booths and display systems for the sale of tile and stone products and I have painted a number of murals on natural stone.

My love for watercolor began with the attraction to its fluid clarity, its demanding nature, and its resistance to control. It created a challenge for me. One painting led to another, one idea led to another and at this point, I will never have enough time to complete all that I would like to accomplish with watercolor
I was born and raised in southeastern New Mexico and have always been a native of the Southwest. After a move to Arizona in 1980, I began to take advantage of the art education available to me and it started something that could not be stopped. I took numerous and varied art classes for many years, having many different instructors, each adding a layer of knowledge and skill to the artist I would become. I have a personal thanks, appreciation, and gratitude for each of them.

I have been involved in many creative endeavors throughout my life, including building artificial boulders integrated into the landscape plans for two of my homes in Arizona. I have designed and fabricated complex window treatments, built miniature furniture for a doll house and was part owner in an interior design firm. I have worked as a new product designer in the stone and tile industry, developing one-of-a-kind products for residential and commercial installations. This led to designing tradeshow booths and display systems for the sale of tile and stone products and I have painted a number of murals on natural stone.

My love for watercolor began with the attraction to its fluid clarity, its demanding nature, and its resistance to control. It created a challenge for me. One painting led to another, one idea led to another and at this point, I will never have enough time to complete all that I would like to accomplish with watercolor.

I love painting with watercolor and I cannot see a time when it will no longer be a challenge to me. Each painting has a way of making me reach further, pushing myself beyond what I think I am capable of. I believe that is what life is about for each of us in one form or another.

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