Wayne Lacom was born in Glendale, CA and grew up studying art in Southern California at the Chouinard Art Institute and the Jepson Art Institute, working with Hardie Gramatky, Watson Cross, Rico Lebrun and Stanton MacDonald-Wright. Along with Hardie Gramatky, he produced art for the war effort and later was known as one of the World War II water color painter group.

After the war, he worked for a brief time in commercial art in New York, but by the late 1940's was back home in California.

Over his thirty year career in art, he taught, worked as a graphic designer, and operated his own gallery and studio in Encino. He was well known as one of the World War II group of water color painters.

He was a member of the California Water Color Society, serving as its president in 1965.

His favored subject were scenes of the California coastline and h e produced a body of work in Hawaii, where he and his wife Diane spent much of their time.
Source: “California Watercolors 1850-1970” By Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last