As poet Jessica Fisher writes in the catalogue of the exhibition Roman Studio: “The viewer is drawn into the process of making as she or he chooses where to read form, where negative space; our desire completes the dance begun by the brush and its liquid medium.”

Poet Karl Kirchwey was inspired by one of Artin’s Parthenon paintings, Phrygian Cap, to write an ekphrastic poem, North Frieze Block XLIII, Figures 118-20.

In 2012 upon the recommendation of artist Eric Fischl, Artin was invited to create a series of watercolor paintings from Greek and Roman statues of mythological figures to accompany Seamus Heaney's classically themed poems in the book Stone from Delphi, by Arion Press.

These colorful paintings show her virtuoso skill and the great versatility of watercolor, recreating rusty stains and graffiti, depicting photographic posters and washy walls.

During her five years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Artin drew in the life drawing studios of Miroslav Antic, Lou Gippetti, Henry Schwartz, Andy Serbick, Tim Nichols, Bill Flynn.

In 2015, the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology showed 47 works in "Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculpture", curated by Christopher Ratté.

In 2013, the American Academy in Rome exhibited 35 of Wendy Artin’s watercolors in celebration of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and the Arion Press book, Stone From Delphi.