A working studio artist, Boyanton's visual mediums include oils, watercolors, pastels and dyes on silk. Her silk work is available at Nomad Gallery on Market Square in Knoxville, where she was the featured artist in the Spring of 2002, and one of her silk paintings was featured on a cover of New Millennium Writings. A website of her work is coming soon. She has a painting degree from the University of Houston - Clear Lake, and did graduate work in art history in Italy in 1978. During the summer of 2002, she attended a painting workshop at the Charles W. Hawthorne School of Art in Provincetown, MA, and her work is still reflecting the influences of her experiences there.

As a board member of KWG, she has served as publicity director and facilitated 
a poetry special interest group for a year. She is on the Peter Taylor Prize 
Committee, the Publications Committee and the Contests Committee. She 
frequently designs visual materials for the Guild, recently completing the KWG 
Directory with Pamela Schoenewalt and the 2003 Contest Brochure with Don 
Williams.

Boyanton has recently semi-retired from a 25-year career as a communications 
expert specializing in graphic design, writing and editing print advertising and internal/external corporate publications. A native of the Texas Gulf Coast, she lived in Houston for many years before coming to Knoxville in 1985. She has two adult children and two grandchildren, with a third grandchild on the way. Of Irish and Scots-Irish ancestry, Boyanton in on the board of the Scottish Society of Knoxville, and has served as editor of the organization's newsletter since 1998. Aside from writing poetry and painting, her favorite pastime is traveling.