Maryland artist, Paula Waterman has been making art all her life. For the past decades she has been doing just that as a full time artist working in oil painting, and most recently in bronze sculpture. Her subject matter is mostly the animals she sees in the wild and in the company of people. She has a particular interest in birds, and of dog subjects, though landscape and marine subjects are also important to her. This work is sometimes on commission, other times borne simply of a love for the subject. A common thread in all her work in all media probably is the critical importance of light source and light color; in fact she feels that light is the true subject in all her work.

Her approach ranges from portraits of animals to wildlife painted in natural settings. Paula has a particular interest in wading birds, dogs, horses and the large African game animals. A consistent theme in her work across all media is the critical importance of both the light source and its color. She believes that light is, in fact, the true subject of all her art.

Paula Waterman is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists and the Society of Animal Artists. In 1992 she was juried into a National Wildlife Art Exhibit, juried by noted artist Robert Bateman. She exhibits regularly in the International Birds in Art juried exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum.

She has also exhibited at the Nicolaysen Art Museum, the Blauvelt Museum and was selected for the top 100 artists in the 1993 Arts for the Parks exhibit. She has exhibited in the juried Mystic International Annual exhibit . Her scratchboard of a Great Horned Owl is included in the Atlas of North American Birds - Owls, published by Jeffery Whiting in 1997. Wildlife Art magazine published her oil paintings and scratchboards in a feature article.

Paula does her own reference photography and prepares for her artwork with studies and sketches. In addition to numerous shows and exhibitions each year, Paula travels to destinations to gather needed reference material, most recently to Africa. Her work can be found in many private and corporate collections as well as the permanent collections in the Blauvelt Museum and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum.