Madlyn-Ann C. Woolwich is a Master Pastelist, Pastel Society of America, signature member and former National Vice President of Knickerbocker Artists USA. Other juried memberships include The Rockport Art Association, (MA), American Artists Professional League, (NYC), advisor and member of The Pastel Society of the West Coast, PSWC, The International Society of Marine Painters, ISMP, the Salmagundi club, NYC., and the Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury,NJ. Writer of many feature articles for the Artist's Magazine, she's included in books as a featured artist in Creative Painting with Pastel by Carol Katchen, Basic Still Life Techniques by Rachel Wolf, North Light Books, part of a future book on acrylic to be published by Quarto Books, London, England, Rockport Publisher's The Best of Pastel 1, Floral Inspirations and soon in A Gallery of Marine Paintings and The Best of Pastel II
Her first book, Pastel Interpretations, was published by North Light Books in 1993, and was published again in 1995 in Asnieres, France, by the Ulysses Publishing Company. Her second book, The Art of Pastel Portraiture was published by Watson-Guptill in July, 1996.

The French Impressionists strongly influenced her impressionist-oriented landscapes, flowers, gardens and still lifes seen in the following galleries: Evergreen. Gallery, Spring Lake, N.J., Art Forms, Red Bank, NJ, Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ, Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ, Salmagundi Club, NYC, Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA, and Lupine Gallery, Monhegan Island, ME. She is currently included in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in the East and Who's Who in the World. She will be included in publications in England: Outstanding Artists of the 20th Century and International Who's Who of Intellectuals. She is a national judge, juror, lecturer, author, writer of critiques, demonstrator and workshop teacher, with work in many corporate and private collections. Selected collections include, American Embassy collection in Uruguay, collection of the Trump family, of Mr. and Mrs. Vin Scully (Los Angeles Dodgers), Ed Hookstratten, Hollywood producer and agent, Dow Jones Information Services Inc., Mrs. Olivia W. Switz, (A&P), Red Bank Radiologists PA, Dr. Kimberly Crawford, Dr.& Mrs. Marvin Noble, Evergreen Gallery, Edwin S. Monroe, MD, Dept. of Anesthesiology, U. of Florida. etc.

Mrs. Woolwich, born and educated in Massachusetts, obtained BS and M.Ed degrees from Bridgewater College MA, with further study at Parson's School of Design and The American Academy of Design, NYC, The University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth Campus) and Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ. The winner of over 130 awards, locally, statewide, nationally and internationally, Woolwich has also been given exhibition, residential and further study grants and scholarships from The New Jersey Council for the Arts, The American Association of University Women, Scottsdale Artist's School, Scottsdale, AZ, and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.

She is currently at work on her third book and numerous slide lectures and articles. She is the featured artist, fall edition of the Grumbacher magazine, Palette Talk, and will also be profiled in the newsletter of Rochester Art Supply, and featured in the January 1999 issue of The Artist's Magazine. Her work was recently shown in a benefit for the Newark Museum. She is President/Director of APOW, Associated Pastelists on the Web, which shows her work and that of some of the nation's finest pastelists.