Wilke grew up in the dairy farming countryside near Appleton, Wisconsin. When she wasn’t playing sports or recreating outside, she was drawing on paper and painting animals on rocks every chance she could get.

Jamie’s art training consisted of attending 4-H drawing and painting workshops and competing at the Outagamie County Fair. She also took one watercolor class in college “just for fun” from watercolorist Mary Ann Beckwith while earning her Scientific & Technical Communication degree from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan.

After college, Jamie moved to Colorado Springs, CO, designed websites and started a family. When she turned 38, she took her first private art lesson and remembered that creating art was her true passion. Jamie made the career change and now works in watercolor, oil, pastel and charcoal. She is thrilled to be creating art regularly and learning from other artists. Jamie welcomes online orders and actively accepts commissioned art requests.

In her free time, Jamie enjoys spending time with her family and friends and being outside running, hiking, camping, skiing and gardening. She is a mid-distance trail runner and is proud to have completed the very vertical half-marathon race, the “Pikes Peak Ascent“, five times. She is an organizer and long term member of a local running club in Palmer Lake, the Palmer Divide Run Club, and she also plays recreational indoor volleyball.