[3] Her first two years of undergraduate work at the University of California, Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies focused on the figure, plein-air landscapes, and printmaking.

[4] Wayne moved to Paris and lived there from 1974 to 1975, where she attended French classes at the Alliance Française, and continued to paint on her own and in various small ateliers.

With the hills of Laguna Beach as her source, Wayne developed a deep love for and identification with the landscape and geology of the Western United States.

[5] After graduation, Wayne returned to painting, developing a minimalist abstract style inspired by the many trips she and her husband, sculptor Don Porcaro made to the Southwest.

Although this show resulted in the attention of the New York art scene, Wayne longed for the creative excitement she felt when she was making sculpture.

In 1992 she received a fellowship to the renown artist's colony, Yaddo where she worked on refining her new approach, and showed these paintings at 55 Mercer Gallery later that year.

Wayne's themes explore the intersection of abstraction and figuration and forms in nature, as well as perception and the relationship between object and image by engaging and challenging the conventional notions of the painting medium.

Throughout the late 1990s and into the 2000s Wayne exhibited with L.A. Louver in Los Angeles, Solomon Projects in Atlanta, GA, Byron Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO and Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer in Düsseldorf, Germany.

In 2014, the Abroms Engel Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Alabama inaugurated their newly opened museum with a survey of Wayne's paintings entitled "Mind The Gap."

Her interviews of fellow artists include Sharon Butler, Lisa Corinne Davis, Lesley Dill, Beverly Fishman, Beatrice Pediconi, Elise Siegel, Elena Sisto, Monica Majoli, Medrie MacPhee and Barbara Takenaga, and have been published in the online art magazines, Artcritical, BOMB and Two Coats of Paint.