Watercolors by Willoweise

I often think how lucky I am to live where I do…
Surrounded by all that I love to see and hear and paint.
My favorite time of the day is that magic moment just before dawn.
A time when you see the world around you gently awaken. It’s a wonderful time to reminise and dream and plan the day ahead.
The love for the land and its animals and people is evident in the paintings of this inspired watercolorist, whose work has been compared to that of Andrew Wyeth, one of America’s most recognized water color artist. Like Wyeth, Willowise captures the mood and the feeling of her subject with a detail realism few are capable of achieving in watercolor.

Willoweise Langham is Southern by nature as well as heritage. Born in Mobile, Alabama, this soft-spoken artist has chosen subjects for her paintings from life… some fondly remembered from childhood. One sees a rural South with red clay roads and one-way wooden bridges…share-cropper families, black and white, living with poverty and pride…the beautiful Gulf Coast area with its beaches, boats, piers and a vast array of wildlife….the magic of its swamps, forests and fence rows around the farm.
It is the South captured by an artist who lives, sees and rejoices in the beauty and feeling of this special area of America.

Willoweise brings to her art a rare combination of talent and experience. After graduating from the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida with a B.F.A. degree, she worked as a commercial artist for several years before opening her own studio in Atlanta, Georgia, to devote full time to painting. She chose to specialize in transparent watercolor, a medium generally recognized as the most difficult. She is now recognized as a master with wet-into-wet and dry brush techniques. In the 70’s she was intrigued with the history and beauty of the Kentucky countryside where she set up her studio on a beautiful Kentucky horse farm. Her painting of the “Kentucky Derby”, released in 1974 in celebration of the 100th “Run for the Roses” has been acclaimed by critics as the best ever interpretation of this special event. In addition to her wildlife and landscape paintings, Willowiese painted a series of watercolors of favorite Paris scenes,executed from sketches made during her trip to Paris sponsored by the Kentucky Bankers Association. Leaving Kentucky, Willoweise returned to her beloved Alabama and Fairhope where she lives and paints today.

In addition to Willowiese’s original paintings, she collected many meaningful sayings…small messages of love, inspiration and humor. The combination of calligraphy and the original watercolor scene that compliments each sayings makes them much desired gifts.

Willoweise Collectors

Bob Hope
Gov. Ford of Kentucky
Gov. Carrol of Kentucky
Lucian Smith
President of the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola
General George S. Patton, Jr.
Peggy Lee
Bobby Shane of the Kingston Trio
Celestine Sibley writer and novelist of Atlanta
Madam Pauline Tabor of Bowling Green,Kentucky
Fannie Flagg
Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama
Gov. Fob James of Alabama

Awards
1st,2nd,3rd Place in Watercolors 1974
Coca-Cola show Elizabethtown, Ky
Mary McGrath Award 1984 Fairhope, Al.
2nd Best of Show 1987 Tops’l Show Destin , Fl
Purchase Awards:
1st Hardin Bank of Elizbethtown, Ky.
1st State Banks of Louisville & Irvington, Ky
Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Al
Langan Park, Mobile Al
Thomas Hospital, Fairhope Al
And numerous other Purchase Awards throughout the Southeast.

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