Paige Wallis

With my paintings I’m just celebrating the beauty I find in the world, from the natural to the man-made and the confluence between the two. I like the challenge of filtering what I see through my eyes, brain, nerves, muscles and fingertips onto a two dimensional surface. I think I was born hard-wired to be an artist of some sort. One of my earliest memories is of when I was very small and used to suck my thumb, I would stroke my face with my index finger and imagine it was a paintbrush.

I’m primarily a realist, but while my watercolors are always pretty earthy and worldly, my acrylics tend to be ‘heightend’ and idealized versions of reality, more slick and less gritty.

1994 - 1998 Savannah College of Art and Design
Graduated cum laude with B.F.A. specializing in Illustration
1990 - 1994 Etobicoke School of the Arts

2019 NSAA Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation Award for Excitement and Inspiration in Acrylic
or Mixed Media
2019 Award of Merit, American Women Artists On-Line Juried Show
2018 NSPCA The Judy and Elias Newman Memorial Award
2017 NSAA Rosamond Smith Bouve Memorial Award for Traditional Portrait/Cityscape/Urban Scene
2013 NSAA Frances Carlie Menna Memorial Award Floral in any Medium
2013 NSAA Joan V. Jarman Watercolor Award for excellence in watercolor
2013 New England Watercolor Society 2013 Regional Exhibition selection
2012 NSAA Michael A. and Mary A Saija Award for Excellence in Watercolor or Oil award winner
2011 NSAA Workshop Fund Award North Shore Arts Association Gloucester, MA
2009 Finalist in Animal/Wildlife category of The Artist's Magazine Annual Art Competition
2009 New England Watercolor Society 2009 Regional Exhibition
1998 SCAD Award for Outstanding Achievement in Illustration
1998 Society of Illustrator’s Student Show Honorable Mention

2020 Making Their Mark : American Women Artists, Booth Western Art Museum
2019 BLUE 2019, Cambridge Art Association
2019 American Women Artists On-Line Juried Show
2018 The Richeson 75 International Figure/Portrait Exhibition
2018 Guild of Boston Artist's Regional Juried Exhibition
2018 NOAPS Best of America Exhibition
2018 ISAP 9th Annual Open International Online Exhibition
2018 NSPCA 64th Annual Exhibition

There are so many artists and movements that I admire and draw inspiration from: Audrey Flack and the photorealists, Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo, Art Nouveau (especially Mucha and Klimt).

realism, highly-detailed, city scenes, streetscapes, photorealism, colorful