Romona Youngquist was born January 11, 1960 in Yuba City, California but grew up in Eastern Oklahoma. A child of nature, Youngquist spent her time exploring the woods with her dog and collecting critters. While exploring she also studied the design and color of nature. She recalls many times standing in a field just staring in fascination at the values of the deciduous trees against a dark Oklaho...see more »ma sky before a storm and then rushing home to draw what she had seen. Youngquist thinks of nature as her real teacher being self taught. In 1994 she was awarded a grant from the Alaska State Council for the Arts to study with Oregon landscape painter, Michael Gibbons. In the late 1990s, she studied with Michael Workman a leading landscape painter from Utah. She has taken their valuable lessons and strengthened her own individual style. She lives on a little farm with her family in the middle of Oregon wine country and her lifestyle hasn't changed much since early childhood. She still hangs out in the woods with the dogs and her own kids and still collects a wide range of critters. When she isn't painting outside, she paints in her studio, in order to keep an eye on her kids and pets while listening to Bach, Handel and Mozart. « see less
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