Penny DeWind

Penny DeWind became interested in art when she visited the City and Country School in Greenwich Village as a child. The kindly art teacher, Al Freudenberg, set her up with a drawing set and this experience got her doing art for the next seventy or so years until the present day. She took drawing classes at Dalton where she went to high school, and at Oberlin College she majored in Art and Art History.

Through marriage and having a family in California, she continued to draw making presents of her work to friends and family. She had a studio in Oakland for a period and began painting. Her painting was always abstract and she often put in hand prints using her own hand. Her drawing was figurative and it was influenced by taking a course in design at California College of Arts and Crafts. She also took a course in botanical illustration at Merritt College and a course in drafting at Laney College. An interest in the world of insects and vegetation has entered her work, especially in relation to the evolution of humans.