Paula Wolcott is a painter who lives in Sugar Hill New Hampshire with her husband Charles Wolcott. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. and grew up under the artistic influences of her great grandmother, a landscape painter who painted in Provencetown, Massachussetts in the 1950’s, and her mother, the late Carole Goldsborough, a landscape and portrait artist. Her background in art began at Simon’s Rock College as an art major studying design and sculpture. Later she went to the Instituto Allende in Mexico to study weaving and batik, and then to the Art Student’s League in New York City to study figure drawing. She studied painting, etching and drawing at Franconia College where she earned a B.A. in Visual Arts. She says, “I use color, composition, light and movement to create a work that has expression and life; I know I’ve painted something good when it excites and pleases me. As for subjects, I paint what I love, and that includes: dogs, snow, dancers, horses, the beach and Spanish colonial churches”. Shortly following graduation from Franconia College in 1977, Paula left painting for fifteen years to become ordained and to work as a Congregational minister. She is now doing what she loves most, which is painting full time.