About Wyatt
Wyatt Landis (Studio Paradiso) is a Seattle-based artist and educator. He has performed onstage with live musicians, lead workshops at museums and taught at University.
Wyatt grew up in the PNW and lived on a sailboat which his parents, fresh out of art school, built in the woods north of Seattle with their friends. He was home-schooled and taught the fundamentals of drawing at an early age. Raised with counter-culture values, Wyatt developed a healthy distaste for authority and a vivid imagination. The Landis household didn’t own a television set until Wyatt was 7 years old and to this day he has never had short hair, which his family viewed as an emblem of conformity and an attack on individuality. Wyatt opened Studio Paradiso is 2014 when he became dissatisfied with the conservative academic environment at his then part-time place of employment. Paradiso was born from a desire to have total freedom to explore in a unrestrictive and non-dogmatic direction.
Wyatt attended the New York Academy of art, where he received his Master’s of Fine Arts degree in painting. While in New York, he studied closely with contemporary figurative painter, Steven Assael. Landis has worked as an instructor to a variety of art classes at the college level, including introductory and advanced courses in drawing and painting at such places as Henry Cogswell College, Northwest College of Art and Design and Pacific Lutheran University. Landis travelled to Norway to study with master painter, Odd Nerdrum.
Wyatt has performed live painting/taught workshops at Seattle Art Museum, Olympic Sculpture Park, Blick Art Materials, Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Cascadia NW Arts and Music Festival, Sucker Punch Productions, Dream Dance at Om Culture and many private events.
Currently, Wyatt (Studio Paradiso) is teaching life drawing every other Saturday afternoon at the downtown Seattle Art Museum.
Classes and Open Drawing Sessions at Studio Paradiso are lead by Wyatt Landis.
The Schooner Pterodactyl: family-built sailing vessel.
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Wyatt is pictured here (center, standing) with his painter friends from the 19th century.
Large-scale drawings from imagination.
Email wyatt.studioparadiso@gmail.com for private instruction or additional class information.
