Waltraud Nawratil was born in Austria in 1947. Since the 1980s, she haslived with her family - her husband and children - in Schnering, UpperAustria. Her garden serves as an inexhaustible source of inspiration for herpainting work.
In1995 Waltraud started painting at a local primary school,where, searching for new challenges, she attended a watercolour paintingcourse. She worked mainly with flower designs due to the bold, intensecolours, but soon went on to include more designs from the entire palette ofnature, such as tree-lined avenues and floral landscapes.Over time, she attended further painting courses to develop her techniqueand experiment with different media and materials.