During performances of Leading Ladies, The Driftwood Players are pleased to feature the work of artist Anita ZYMOLKA Amrhein in the lobby of The Wade James Theatre.

Anita ZYMOLKA Amrhein was born in Potsdam near Berlin, Germany. She was fortunate to escape East Germany just the day before the Berlin Wall went up. Together with her diplomat husband she has lived and traveled extensively overseas. From drawings to working with oils, acrylics and painting on porcelain and silk, she has since concentrated on watercolors, depicting mostly motives of nature in its various forms. Working and exhibiting overseas until her husband's recent retirement, Anita signs her paintings with her maiden name "ZYMOLKA".

Initiating her studies in the early 80's at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, she later continued under Prof. August Ohm in Hamburg, Germany. With the help of several workshops in Germany and Italy, as well as in the U.S. with Linda Doll, Michelle Tremaine and Skip Lawrence, she has refined her own unique style of interpreting nature.

She has had solo exhibitions in Hamburg, Berlin and Potsdam, Germany; Milan, Italy; Warrenton, Virginia and Everett, Washington. Her works have also been juried into exhibitions at the Kirsten Gallery, Seattle and Solovei Gallery, Everett, as well as exhibitions of several Northwest Art Societies. Her works can today be found in private collections in many countries.

A member of the Northwest Watercolor Society, the Camano Arts Association and the Stanwood Camano Arts Guild, Anita now makes her home with her husband on Camano Island in Washington State.