Wyma Hornbuckle is an award winning multi-talented artist, painter, musician, writer and teacher. Nashville-born, her work is held in both private and corporate collections throughout the US. She has had ten solo exhibitions, multiple two-person shows and her work has been included in numerous invitational and group exhibitions. In the early 90s, her painting, "Red Moon Rising", was selected from 1,700 entries as one of only 53 works to be included in Cheekwood's First National Contemporary Painting Competition. She was also named one of the forty most outstanding women artists in Middle Tennessee when her painting "Midnight Rainbow" was selected for the National Museum of Women in the Arts Exhibition at Cheekwood. She has worked passionately for acceptance of visual arts and artists here in Nashville. In 1992 she led the prestigious but then floundering Nashville Artist Guild to a renaissance with the Phoenix Exhibition in which her painting "Two Moons" was featured. Later she was one of the artist organizers and exhibitors at Amaranth Gallery in Nashville.

In 2000 and again in 2005 she spread her wings and spent three weeks in Thailand studying the art and culture of Southeast Asia. Her focus was on the ancient ruins, artifacts, textiles, paintings, and sculptures of Thailand.

Presently painting in oils and acrylics, her wide experience includes work in photography, mixed media, pastel and clay. She is a member of national and local art organizations and has served two terms as President of the Nashville Artist Guild. Holding a Cum Laude BFA degree in Painting with minors in Art History, Psychology (Art Therapy emphasis), Photography, and Clay, she is also an accredited piano teacher, a published writer and an international art critic. She lives in Hermitage, TN with her two sons and her two cats, Zorro and Tiger.