Full time artist, illustrator, animal lover, graphic designer, and guardian angel to worms stranded on sidewalks, Winky Wheeler, creates vivid watercolor paintings of whimsically drawn animals engaged in a wide range of playful situations. Nationally and internationall distributed, these creative images appear on products ranging from fabric design, puzzles, ornaments, posters and greeting cards. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts and native New Yorker, she now makes her home in sunny Portland, Oregon.