Wendy Balderson Keller grew up on the Canadian prairies and has loved art from the time she could hold a crayon. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from BYU with a BFA in illustration, studying under Robert Barrett, Ralph Barksdale, and Bruce Smith. As a senior, one of her pieces was selected for the Society of Illustrators National Student Competition exhibit. She has spent the past eighteen years doing landscape, portrait, and abstract commissions while raising her four daughters.