Thelma studied art at the University of Denver, Indiana University in South Bend, and in Western Michigan at Kalamazoo, MI. She earned her bachelors degree in education at Goshen College in Goshen, IN and her Masters in Art Education at St. Francis College in Fort Wayne, IN. Her thirty years of teaching experience have been at both the elementary and the secondary levels.
Thelma has been a member of the Asociación de Acuarelistas de Puerto Rico for 20 years and is at present the treasure of the association. She has attended numerous workshops sponsored by that association. Her paintings are inspired by the beauty of the Puerto Rican scenery and are available in originals and reproductions in numbered prints and cards.
Sweeping mountain views, wind tossed palms, waves you can practically hear crashing on the beach, centuries old buildings and the piquant charm of this Caribbean island are the images scattered throughout the watercolor artist’s paintings. A long time resident of Puerto Rico, Thelma began her journey with art in a small town in Northern Indiana. There she studied and developed a life long love for the French Impressionists. She graduated from Goshen College and took a Masters in Art Education at St. Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She taught art for 30 years. Her progression through diverse media took her from oils to acrylics and on to mosaic and sculpture. She even turned her hand to jewelry making. All these experiments never led her to watercolor until the year she retired from teaching, when she attended a watercolor workshop at the prompting of a close friend. She was hooked.
