Madlyn-Ann C. Woolwich, Master Pastelist PSA, KA, ISMP, PSWC, PSNF-DP, APOW473 Marvin Drive
Long Branch, New Jersey 07740-5003
Telephone: (732) 229-3752/ Studio: (732) 229-0025
Fax: (732) 229-3753
email: mwoolwich@aol.com
APOW Pastel website: www.artshow.com/apow/woolwich
Guild of Creative Art: www.redbank.com/guildMadlyn-Ann C. Woolwich is a Master Pastelist, Pastel Society of America, signature member and former National Vice President of Knickerbocker Artists USA. Other juried memberships include The Rockport Art Association, (MA), American Artists Professional League, (NYC), advisor and member of The Pastel Society of the West Coast, PSWC, The International Society of Marine Painters, ISMP, the Salmagundi club, NYC., and the Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ. Writer of many feature articles for the The Artist's Magazine and Pastel Journal she's included in books as a featured artist in Creative Painting with Pastel by Carol Katchen, Basic Still Life Techniques by Rachel Wolf, Fruit and Flowers, North Light Books, part of a future book on acrylic to be published by Quarto Books, London, England, Rockport Publisher's The Best of Pastel I, Floral Inspirations, A Gallery of Marine Paintings and The Best of Pastel II. Her first book, Pastel Interpretations, was published by North Light Books in 1993, given a three month museum exhibition of the included artists at the Monmouth Museum, and republished in 1995 in Asnieres, France by the Ulisses Publishing Company. Her second book, The Art of Pastel Portraiture -published by Watson-Guptill in July, 1995 has just been published in China.
The French Impressionists strongly influenced her impressionist-oriented landscapes, flowers, gardens and still lifes seen in the following galleries: Evergreen Gallery, Spring Lake, N.J., Art Forms, Red Bank, NJ, Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ, Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ, Salmagundi Club, NYC, Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA, and Lupine Gallery, Monhegan Island, ME. She is currently included in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in the East and Who's Who in the World, Outstanding Artists of the 20th Century, International Who's Who of Intellectuals and Who's Who in the 21st century. She is a national judge, juror, lecturer, author, writer of critiques, demonstrator, APOW website director, and workshop teacher, with work in many corporate and private collections. Selected collections include: American Embassy collection in Uruguay, collection of the Trump family, of Mr. and Mrs. Vin Scully (Los Angeles Dodgers) Ed Hookstratten, Hollywood producer and agent, Dow Jones Information Services Inc., Mrs. Olivia W. Switz, (A&P), Red Bank Radiologists PA, Dr. Kimberly Crawford, Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Noble, Evergreen Gallery, Edwin S. Monroe, MD, Dept. of Anesthesiology, U. of Florida, etc.
Mrs. Woolwich, born and educated in Massachusetts, obtained BS and M.Ed degrees from Bridgewater College MA, with further study at Parson's School of Design, The American Academy of Design, NYC, The University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth Campus) and Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ. The winner of over 132 awards, locally, statewide, nationally and internationally, Woolwich has also been given exhibition, residential and further study grants and scholarships from The New Jersey Council for the Arts, The American Association of University Women, Scottsdale Artist's School, Scottsdale, AZ, and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont. In July, she gave two three hour demo/lectures for IAPS in Albuquerque.
At work on her third book, slide lectures and articles, she is the featured artist, in a recent Grumbacher magazine, Palette Talk. Recently part of a benefit for Newark Museum, she is President/Director of APOW, Associated Pastelists on the Web, showing her work and that of some of the nation's finest pastelists. Her most current activities are as follows: inclusion in Who's Who of the 21st Century, first edition, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, awards judge for the Connecticut Pastel Society in October 2001, incoming and Awards' judge for The Pastel Society of the West Coast, 4 articles for both The Artist's Magazine and Pastel Journal, a landscape pastel/oil workshop for Sol Eizaguirre in Spain for Sept. 16th-27th 2002, another in The Coupeville Arts Center, Washington, 2002.