Kami Mendlik OPA
Kami Mendlik is a nationally and internationally recognized oil painter, whose primary focus is the study of light and color in the landscape. In 2008, she founded the St Croix River School of Painting in Stillwater MN where she teaches the fundamentals of representational painting with a special emphasis on color. In January of 2014 she purchased a 16-acre farm just North of Stillwater Minnesota, where she converted a 100-year-old hip roof barn into her studio and the St Croix River School of Painting’s new location. The property is a landscape painters dream with endless inspiration for painting. Kami is the 2022 recipient of the Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship and awarded the 2022 Bronze Medal at the Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition. She is the author of “Color Relativity: Creating the Illusion of Light with Paint”, Creator of Planal Fruit, Distinguished Alumni Recipient – Stillwater Area Highschool, Signature Member OPA – Oil Painters of America, Signature Member of AIS – American Impressionist Society, Signature Member of ASMA – American Society of Marine Artists, Signature Member of AWA – American Woman Artists, and an active Member of OPM – Outdoor Painters of Minnesota.