Abstract Oil & Mixed Media · Colorado
Valarie
Widmayer
Artist
B.A. Fine Arts — Cedar Crest College, 1995
Based in Parker, Colorado
Medium — Oil on Canvas · Mixed Media
Artist Statement
A cloud never retains the same form or shape. Clouds continuously transform, and everyone views them from a different perspective.
As a child, I enjoyed staring at clouds, seeing what I thought they might be, and making up stories in my head. As an adult, I still have my head in the clouds. I am an abstract artist, inspired by life around me. Painting is my emotional sanctuary — allowing me to immerse myself in a canvas, exploring my innermost thoughts while finding balance within a confined space. My goal is to transform thoughts and emotions into a vibrant, richly colored collage of depth. Each painting represents the release of a part of the ever-changing artist within me, creating a tangible work of art.
Selected Exhibitions
Abstract Zone Group Online Exhibition
Artsy.net · Online
- Seville 2024 · 24×36 · Oil on Canvas
Exhibizone Group Online Exhibition: Circle, Squares, Triangles
Online
- Untitled Series (Purple) 2024 · 24×24 · Oil on Canvas
24th Annual Lone Tree Art Expo
Lone Tree Arts Center · Lone Tree, Colorado
- Crowded Streets 2025 · 24×36 · Oil on Canvas
4th Annual Women Only — Her Canvas Art Exhibition
Blue Koi Gallery International · Online
Finalist Award- Longest Winter 2024 · 24×24 · Oil on Canvas
Abstraction: Forms, Lines, Colors
Exhibition & Print Publication
- Untitled Series — Purple 2024 · 24×24 · Oil on Canvas
43rd Issue · Virtual Exhibition
Artistonish Magazine · Print Publication
- Lisbon Street 2024 · 15×30 · Oil/Mixed Media
Group Exhibition
Birdsong Collective Art Gallery · Arvada, Colorado
- Fade Into Blue 2023 · 24×24
- A.M. Light 2023 · 24×36
- Intricate Web We Weave 2023 · 20×20
- Cherry Blossom 2023 · 20×20
- Ignite 2023 · 24×24
2023 Abstract Exhibit · Virtual Exhibition
Las Laguna Art Gallery · Laguna Beach, California
- Gray Matter 2021 · 36×36
Biography
by art &
color.
Valarie Widmayer holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from Cedar Crest College (1996). Her early career brought her to Crayola, where she worked in Art Education.
In 2001, Valarie relocated to Colorado. Over the past several years she has returned fully to the canvas, earning recognition in juried exhibitions across Colorado and California.
Her work — richly layered oil and mixed media paintings — reflects both the emotional interior life of its maker and the expansive natural landscapes of her adopted home.
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Featured Pieces
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Pond
Nothing is Ever Red
Moss
Fog on the Dock
Crowded Streets
Fade Into Blue
Longest Winter
Original Work · Three Decades of Practice
A Legacy of
Refinement
Valarie Widmayer’s paintings carry the emotional weight of a life lived through color — abstract work that honors the truth of place, light, and memory.
Each canvas is built through layers of oil and mixed media, shaped over decades of practice and a commitment to work that endures beyond the moment of its making.
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