Maggie Kendis

Maggie Kendis grew up in Los Angeles and studied art at both San Francisco State College, and graduated with a BA in art from the University .of California. Irvine. Her core studies were printmaking, drawing and photography.

Following a period of living and studying in Mexico, she learned the medium of batik. She worked in that medium for 20 years and it has been represented in galleries from Beverly Hills, Palm Springs, Maui, to Boston. She has commissioned many works for the Bank of America throughout Southern California.

In 1980, she got married, moved to Connecticut and continued to study printmaking, pastels, drawing and painting in oils and watercolor. Now single, shelives in Lebanon with her dog and two cats.

She divides her time between working as a director with Mary Kay Cosmetic painting faces, and working her art in primarily linoleum prints, monotypes, and painting.