A native of Sweden, Waterhouse has lived and studied in Sweden, England and the USA. She is now a full time artist living and working in Peachtree City, GA. She holds a Batchelor and Masters Degree in fine arts and art education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Waterhouse has exhibited her work throughout the USA and abroad and has participated in national and international competitions, Individuals and corporations collect her work and it can be seen among others at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Tokyo Airport, Japan, Mead-Westvaco Corporation SC, Kimberly Clarke Corporate Office, WI and Great Northern Cooperation, WI.

 She has been awarded Individual Artist’s grants from Fulton County Arts Council and Georgia Council for the Arts, Hambidge Center Residency Award, GA 2002 and 2004 and Spoleto USA Arts Festival Public Arts Award, SC. In 1997, among one hundred other Georgia artists, she was awarded “Outstanding Georgia Woman in the Visual Arts by the State of Georgia.”

In 2013 Waterhouse will be included in the international book “500 Paper Objects: New Directions in Paper Art”, juried by Gene McHugh, a Kress fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She will be one of twenty eight artists in the e-book “Authentic Visual Voices: Contemporary Paper and Encaustic” by Catherine Nash to be released in 2013. 

Waterhouse has also been published in “Contemporary Impressions”, “International Association of Hand Papermakers”, “Fiberarts Design book Four and Five”, “Nordstjarnan”, a Scandinavian Publication and the ”Hand Papermaking Journal”, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues. .

 

Mona Waterhouse 2013