Laguna Plein Air Painters Signature Membership 2013
“83rd Annual Statewide Exhibit, Incredible Places: Contemporary Landscape Painters of California“ Juried by Michael Zakian EXHIBITION DATES: June 1 - 30, 2013 Reception: Saturday, June 8, 3-5pm LOCATION: Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway Santa Cruz, CA
3rd Annual Signature American Watercolor Society Exhibition Fallbrook Ca
California Art Club SAVING PARADISE: The Symbiosis of Landscape Painting and Environmental Awareness Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, March 8 – May 6, 2012
California Art Club 101st Gold Medal Exhibition, the Autry, LA, April 1 to 22nd
California has always been a mythic land of sunshine that stirred my imagination. A fortunate set of influences helped me arrive at my own style of interpreting the California Landscape. I was probably permanently warped by doing paint by numbers as a child. I fell hard for the work of the early California Impressionists, particularly Granville Redmond and William Wendt. Their work helped me to see the landscape as shapes. It is much easier for me to control hard edges with watercolor while painting outdoors. These factors led me to develop a style that simplifies what I see and organizes it into shimmering patches of color. I am a Plein Air Painter who goes outside to see colors and shapes from life so that I can change them in ways feel true to me and express my personal artistic vision.
Selected Juried exhibits, awards and publications: First Prize
Watercolor 79th Annual Statewide Exhibit of Contemporary Landscape
Painters, Juried by Kevin MacPherson, Ones to Watch, Watercolor Artist
Magazine, Dec 2007 issue • Sonoma Plein Air 2010 2009 and 2007, Napa
Valley Museum 2007 Northern Views Exhibit. North Light Books "Splash
11"2010 "Splash 10 " 2008 and “Splash 9” 2006, biennial collections of
the best in Watercolor. Carmel Art Festival, Honorable Mention
Awards,2009, 2007 and 2006. California Watercolor Association National
Exhibit 2010,2009,2007
• CWA National Exhibit 2006, The Jerry Little Award
• CWA National Exhibit 2004, The Jade Fon Asilomar Award
• William Lester Gallery Invitational Point Reyes Plein Air Paint Out,
2005
•“Local Voice” Exhibit at The Bedford Gallery 2008(Award) and 2005
• Triton Museum of Art Statewide Watercolor Biennial
• Valley Art Gallery “Slopes of Diablo” Exhibit (Second Award)
• Artist Member of the California Art Club, as of December 2008.
• Signature Membership California Watercolor Association 2007
• Signature Membership National Watercolor Society 2007