llene Meyer was born in Seattle, Washington in 1940. She is a self-taught artist, who was inspired by her mother's drawings as a child. She began showing her surreal oil paintings in Washington and California in the 1970's. She paints in the Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso style, but with more life and feeling. She makes her paints come alive with her use of light, color, shadows and "all the details".
