Paula Wilson-Cazier / Honey Tree Studios

About the Artist

Paula Wilson-Caziér of Honey Tree Studios is a multiple award-winning watercolor artist specializing in traditional transparent techniques landscapes. Wyoming’s landscapes provide inspiration for her artwork, and the space needed for her life as an artist.

Her fine art has been exhibited in one-artist and group exhibitions, and represented by Wyoming and Colorado galleries, and is held in private collections throughout the US, as well as the UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Her work is currently represented exclusively by the Deselms Fine Art Gallery in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

At Honey Tree Studios she creates fine and commercial art that exhibits exacting quality and high technical standards. Her commissions have included children's book illustrations, and contracts from various publishers, including multiple national magazine cover illustrations for the American Mensa Bulletin.

Whether in-studio or in the field for plein-air studies, she says “Process is everything. With the fast and unforgiving nature of watercolor, process and technique determine a work’s success or failure.” She notes that it’s critical to “identify the light areas through the nuances of the underpaintings, and then leave them be. You have to follow the subtleties as you work to add depth, but keeping it fluid and light.”

She adds, “In traditional transparent techniques, the white of the paper is all the white that you need. You can’t encroach on it as you work multiple layers of glazing to build the luminosity. Watercolor is so fast, you have to let your mistakes work for you. Working a composition too slowly or tightly will not let the medium speak for itself. You have to be willing to follow the flow and move on.”

Paula is also a Shambhava Hatha Yoga teacher, holding Yoga Alliance E-RYT500 certification, specializing in students with limited mobility, traumatic injury, and chronic pain. As a Yoga Alliance Certified Education Provider (YACEP) she is constantly developing curriculum for yoga teachers internationally. She notes, “Life is precious and short. By retaining mental and physical vitality we enhance both life-quality and longevity, the only way we can hope to learn and grow.”

She holds multiple degrees and honorariums, and pursued doctoral studies in the 20th Century Visual Arts, as a WICHE Scholar at Washington State University. She has taught watercolor, drawing, design, English composition, and research writing for several colleges and universities. She’s served as corporate art director in the private sector, and as juror and judge for, and watercolor miniature shows.

She worked as Coordinator of the University of Wyoming Graduate School, was the UW Department Head of Graphics, and Art Director and contributing editor for UWyo magazine, receiving national, regional and state awards in art direction, design, and scientific and feature writing, including two national CASE Grand Gold Awards for design. She has served on Wyoming Mountain Mensa’s Executive Committee, and is a former member of the Quill & Scroll Honorary Society, Phi Alpha Theta History Honorary Society, the Wyoming Press Association, and the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association.

Learn More

You can learn more or purchase Paula’s artwork outside of Touchstone by going to her website at honeytreestudios.com or at Deselms Fine Art Gallery in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Follow her online on Instagram @leconslanuit or on Facebook here.