Renee Samuels (b.1958 St. Johnsbury, Vermont) grew up in Waltham, Massachusetts, studied English and art from 1976-1980 at Boston University and moved to Woodstock, New York, in 1987, where she began five years of study with the late Nicholas Buhalis, working six hours a day, three days per week on drawing, painting and art history. Exhibiting since 1987, she won a First Prize in a painting show at Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in 1990. Since then she's had more than 10 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 80 group shows in the Hudson Valley region, New Jersey, New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her home and studio are in Woodstock, New York, where she is listed on the Chamber of Commerce's famous artists web page (http://woodstockchamber.com/woodstock-new-york-ny-artists-famous.html).