Onnalee Graham has lived, gone to school, and raised a family in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has worked as a commercial layout artist and graphic designer for decades. Essentially self-taught in watercolor, it is only since 1993 that she has returned to her first love and begun to paint just for the sake of painting. She is endlessly fascinated by the myriad nuances of depicting that basic element—water, in all its forms and manifestations—in watercolor.

Believing one paints best what one knows and loves the most; Onnalee has developed a long series on canoeing in the BWCAW, which has become a book in three parts. Now she is "branching out" and experimenting with different techniques and subjects. The several awards garnered and many plaudits of colleagues and friends still amazes her. All these years and hundreds of paintings later, Onnalee is "challenged and pleasantly surprised when the pictures in my head are matched by the paintings I complete. There are still many more to be done."

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