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A wonderful article and photos of my art has just been released. I am very proud, humbled, and grateful, for the 2-page feature in the Fall issue of Monroe County Life magazine, a beautiful glossy color publication focused on the area where I live in Tennessee. Copies of the magazine are distributed local to Monroe County, TN, and I’ve attached the story here. My name is even on the magazine cover! Many thanks to Lisa Bingham, Publisher, of The Bingham … Read More

The Traveling Show of the bienniel Tennessee Watercolor Exhibition continues touring around the state of Tennessee. Today the show opens at Customs House Museum, in Clarksville TN. My award winning watercolor painting “Jerry Van, Music Man” is in this show. The museum is open Tuesdays through Sundays. The exhibit will remain there through September 20, 2012. Here is the plaque I received from TnWS this year, denoting that I have earned Signature Member status in the organization, having been accepted … Read More

The West Tennessee Regional Art Center, located between Memphis and Nashville, is the first stop of the Traveling Show of the 2012 Tennessee Watercolor Society Exhibition. My painting Jerry Van, Music Man, is one of 30 paintings chosen for the Traveling Show, from the original exhibition of 70 juried paintings. The show will be on exhibit in this location from July 19 through August 15. The Art Center is located at 1200 Main Street, Humboldt, TN 38343, and is open … Read More

I am so excited that my two new watercolor paintings – “Jerry Van, Music Man” and “Jesus Saves” – are accepted into the Tennessee Watercolor Society’s 33rd Exhibition. This show, as is typical of watercolor exhibitions, is juried by one person, in this case by internationally acclaimed artist Gerald Brommer. The exhibit includes 70 paintings chosen from 212 submitted as digital images by member artists from all over Tennessee. The juror will wait to view the paintings in person to … Read More

The Tennessee Watercolor Society’s 32rd Exhibition, which took place last summer in Chattanooga, was professionally videotaped and will be shown on Tennessee PBS stations this weekend. So if you are in TN, tune in on Saturday, January 29, 2011, 7:30 pm ET and Sunday, January 30, 2011, 3:30 pm ET (adjust for Central Time, my friends to the west!). The paintings chosen for this biennial exhibition were truly superior, and I was proud not only to be accepted with both … Read More

The Tennessee Watercolor Society’s 32nd Exhibition has ended in Chattanooga, TN, but 30 selected paintings will travel around Tennessee in three other shows in the next 5 months. My award winning painting “Decadence” is part of the Traveling show.You might live close enough to catch one of these venues: Customs House Museum, Clarksville TN (Nashville area), for July and August West Tennessee Regional Art Center at Humboldt (Memphis area), for September and October Pryor Gallery at Columbia State Community College, … Read More

I just won an award for “Decadence,” one of the two paintings I got accepted into the Tennessee Watercolor Society’s biennial exhibition. The show opened at the Chattanooga (TN) State Community College last Saturday with the awards ceremony, and runs through June 25th, open M-F 9-5. It is a beautiful show, with some fabulous paintings, so I am very proud to have been chosen for the show, and delighted to get a prize! My second painting in the show is … Read More

Here’s the official poster for the TWS 32nd Exhibition, for which my paintings “Decadence” (described in my previous blog post) and “Nature Paints a Picture” have been chosen. I learned that there were 213 paintings entered from all around Tennessee, and my two were among the 70 juried into the show. The selection was made from digital photos of the paintings; the juror will select recipients of the 18 awards when the actual paintings are delivered to Chattanooga, TN, prior … Read More