About the Artist

About Lori Woodward

Woodward Simons - Biography

Lori Woodward, born 1955, earned a bachelor's degree in Art Education from the University of Arizona.

Since 1996, Woodward has authored more than 60 articles for  American Artist, Watercolor, Workshop, and International Artist Magazines. She has contributed regularly as an aurthor of step-by-step instructional articles, featuring her own paintings, for Watercolor Magazine since 2007. Several of those articles have been featued in recent Hightlights publicatons by American Artist Magazine.

In addition to teaching art marketing workshops at Village Arts of Putney, Woodward most recently gave an art marketing seminar at Scottsdale Artist School, and spoke for the 2012 SmARTist Telesummit, along with a number of key marketing experts.  In 2001, she authored the chapter on artists' websites for Calvin J. Goodman's  Art Marketing Handbook for the 21st Century. In addition to writing marketing blogs on her own website, Woodward was the first regular contributor to Clint Watson's Fine Art Views Art Marketing Newsletter, which currently has over 20,000 subscribers.

Woodward has been a member of the Putney Painters since 2004, a small invitational group of painters who are mentored by Richard Schmid and Nancy Guzik. She has exhibited with a number of commercial galleries in New England and Tucson Arizona, however, in recent years, she has preferred to sell her work directly to collectors. On occassion, she exhibits in brick and mortar gallery shows and events.