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Original Paintings by Wanda Dillard

W.M. Dillard is a self-taught artist of Cherokee-Irish descent. In 1985, living in Lawton, Oklahoma, the heart of Indian country, she felt an inexplicable desire to draw faces – faces of people she’d never known. She painted the mystic voices of the past – old faces, rugged, weather-beaten, tired and weary. Ms. Dillard works to preserve the dignity and spirit of all Indian nations on canvas for future generations. Her works have been created in pastels, prismacolor, watercolor, oil and acrylics. In 1985, Ms. Dillard went to Germany where she created the cover art and wrote feature articles for the monthly publication, USO Today in Baumholder, Germany. Both her art and writing have served as a teaching forum as she exhibited and lectured on Art and Native American history in Germany. Ms. Dillard inspired young people to seek knowledge from Native American viewpoints in history, urging them not to take anything at face value. Ms. Dillard has exhibited her art, poetry and articles at PowWows in Texas and Louisiana, and at businesses in Houston, Humble, League City and Galveston, Texas. She established an art gallery and performance arts café in Galveston, Texas in 1997, where she held regular poetry readings and writer’s workshops in conjunction with live performances of original plays by local writers. Her art has been published in Southwest Art and Wild West magazines and is in private collections throughout the United States and Europe. W.M. Dillard was born in Hamilton Bermuda in 1953 but her heart lies deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains where Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina join - where her ancestors were born and buried beneath the sacred “Red Clay” of Cherokee earth. She presently lives in Houston, Texas. ARTIST’S STATEMENT “I found my freedom when I discovered my art. I lose myself when I paint. When I pick up a brush or pencil, I disappear into a different world, one over which I have total freedom and control. I like to experiment with anything that will help me to achieve the feel of whatever I’m trying to achieve in an individual painting—whether that world forms itself into realism, or something more abstract. My affinity for my Cherokee heritage takes me deep into my own spiritualism and it is here where I find my ancestors emerging onto the canvas. I often discover things about myself—things that are revealed unconsciously to me in my paintings. Sometimes it is quite an epiphany. I hope you enjoy your journey into my world as you view my paintings. May you always walk into the sun and let the darkness fall behind you. Osiyo.,.,” W.M. Dillard

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