History

B.J. Wayne was an abstract artist in the late 70s and 80s. She lived in Tribeca, in Manhattan, and showed in Soho. A series of drawings she made inspired her to begin writing music for a multi-media show. This lead to an eventual departure from abstract art and more immersion in performance and music.

After a move to Cape Ann, B.J. returned to art as a figurative, animal and landscape painter. She studied with Boston School of Art artists Robert Cormier and David Curtis in Gloucester, with Cape Ann artist Jeff Weaver, with world-famous N.Y. artist Burton Silverman and with Cindy MacMillan at the Academy of Realist Art-Boston.

Education

  • Master of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute of Art

Selected List of Exhibitions

  • American Academy of Equine Art, Lexington, KY-Sept. 2006
  • Allied Artists of America (exhibit at the National Arts Club-NYC-Nov. 2006)
  • Masters of Foxhounds Association of America Traveling Art Exhibition. Organized by Cross Gate Gallery in
    Lexington, KY – Throughout 2007.
  • Rockport Art Association, 2003-2011
  • North Shore Art Association, 2003-2011
  • Walsingham Gallery, Newburyport, MA
  • Montague Gallery, Concord, MA
  • Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA
  • Kennedy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH - 2011
  • The Art Parlour – Gloucester, MA – 2011
  • Eventide Gallery – Essex, MA – 2011-2012

Awards

  • Wholesale Art Supplies Award (North Shore Art Association 2008)
  • Shirley Holden Helberg Grant (2010)

Past Teachers

  • Burton Silverman
  • David Curtis
  • Robert Cormier
  • Jeff Weaver
  • Cindy MacMillan, Academy of Realist Art-Boston