Denver native Enid Wood first fell in love with pastels as toddler, when she saw pastel portraits painted from life at the Plaza in Santa Fe.

Enid now paints and teaches pastel classes and workshops in south and central Texas.

Painting is Enid’s second career, after 40 years of violin teaching, mainly in England. Her pastel paintings have won numerous awards including Best in Show from Pastel Society of the Southwest in 2011, the Portrait Award from the Pastel Society of the Southwest National Exhibition in 2022, and two honorable mentions in the Pastel 100. In 2020 Enid achieved Masters Circle status in the International Association of Pastel Societies. Enid’s work appears in galleries throughout Texas, exhibitions throughout the country, and collections throughout the world.

Enid holds signature status in the Pastel Society of America and the Pastel Society of New Mexico, and is an Associate with Distinction in American Women Artists. A prolific writer, her work is frequently published in Pastel Journal. She is currently President of Austin Pastel Society.

She learned portrait and still life painting from Don Doxey as an undergraduate at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, and later studied art history in an interdisciplinary masters degree program at Yale. Enid spent a decade in Albert Handell’s plain air landscape mentorship program, and takes workshops with other noted pastel painters regularly.

Her paintings begin with a captivating color or pair of colors, and then take shape as vigorous, emotional renderings of our beautiful and fragile world.