Wendy Trinder took up painting in the late 60s after having studied Botany, Chemistry and Zoology at Hull University. She trained with a number of artists including Edward Wesson, John Blockley, Tom Coates and Ken Paine.
Since 1981 Trinder has exhibited with many of the major London art institutions including the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the New English Art Club, Royal Watercolour Society and the Society of Women Artists of which she was made a full member in 1988.
From around that same time she taught general and botanical painting and drawing at Urchfont Manor in Wiltshire until it closed in 2013. She was also a founder member of the Society of Botanical Artists and helped to develop their Distance Learning Diploma up until 2014.
