Frieda Golding is a graduate of Albright Art School, University of Buffalo, New York, and attended Columbia University, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She also studied under Charles Burchfield. While pursuing her career as a fine artist, she was employed by Antiques Magazine in New York as an advertising designer. Later, while living in St. Louis, she also designed textbooks. She has been residing on the Monterey Peninsula with her husband since 1968, and has been a member of the Carmel Art Association since 1970.


Frieda prefers to paint natural forms stressing growth and movement. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her watercolors on the east coast as well as locally. In the late 1980s her work was part of a two-year travelling exhibit of "California Watercolor Artists". She is included in the book Watercolor Bold and Free by Lawrence Goldsmith and is the author-illustrator of two textbooks, Watercolor Techniques and Color Theory.