About the Artist
I have been drawing and painting as long as I can remember. Growing up in California as one of five boys, if I wasn’t building a wooden pirate ship with my brothers I was probably in the backyard drawing. I started entering art shows as a teen and eventually earned a BFA from Utah State University. Raised in California and calling Marrowstone Island, WA home for many years, since 2014 I divide time between studios in Australia and Washington. I love my travels on the dusty roads of the West, sketching and painting in watercolors and oils.
I teach internationally and in the U.S. and quite enjoy the challenge of dropping into new territory with my brushes. In 2015 I was awarded the coveted Silver Medal of Honor at the 148th AWS International Exhibition in New York, and in 2018 was invited to exhibit in the Masters of watercolor exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia. My work is influenced by John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, Ogden Pleissner, Emile Kosa Jr. and many of the great illustrators including N.C. Wyeth and Dean Cornwell.
I am passionate about drawing and painting, especially in watercolor. Watercolor is a medium that is easy to pick up but difficult to master. The best watercolorists in my opinion paint with supreme confidence. I can think of few things in life I enjoy more than the challenge of painting outdoors with my simple array of brushes, paper and paint. It is a challenge I can easily lose myself in for hours.
AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
National Watercolor Society : Signature Member
American Watercolor Society: Signature Member
Artists Who Teach
RECENT AWARDS:
Best of Show, Northwest Plein Air Competition 2010 Best Historical Painting, Northwest Plein Air Competition 2010 Collectors Purchase Award, Northwest Plein Air Competition 2010 Best of show, Oregon Plein Air Annual show 2010 Allied Artists Professional League: Canson Paper Award 2010 San Fransisco Society of Illustrators: Bronze Los Angeles Society of Illustrators: Bronze Northwest Watercolor Society: June Kullberg Award Washington Plein Air Painters: Honerable mention Northwest Plein Air Competition: 2nd place ASAI Five Awards of Excellence in the annual Architure in Perspective shows Highly Commended VAS Maritime exhibit Highly Commended Kenneth Jack Watercolour Exhibition 2014/2015 Silver Medal of Honor: American Watercolor Society 2015 Combined Donors Award: National Watercolor Society 2015 Thomas Somerscales Trophy for Maritime Painting 2017 Artist of the Year candidate VAS Highly Commended VAS Autumn show 2018 Third place FASO Boldbrush competition May 2018 Art of Watercolor Third place award NWS member competition 2017 Art of Watercolor "paintings of summer" Honorable mention 2018 Camberwell Art Show: Boroondara Exhibition Award 2018 RECENT JURIED SHOWS: Oregon Plein Air Annual show 2010 Northwest Plein Air Competition 2010 OPA western Regional American Impressionist Society New England Watercolor Society Biennial American League of Professional Artists Sonoma Plein Air 2010 Carmel Arts Festival 2010 Northwest Watercolor Society Open Show Northwest Plein Air Competition 2009 National Watercolor Society Open Show Best of Plein Air LPAPA Less is More LPAPA Coos Art Maritime Exhibition ASMA National Show Easton Plein Air 2012-2015 AWS 2015-2018 San Diego Watercolor Society International 2018 Sonoma Plein Air Invitational
RECENT EXHIBITIONS and upcoming invitationals
Northwest Landscape Artists, Roby King Gallery, May 2010
Plein Air invitational, Northwind Arts, May 2010
Symphonic Sketches, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, February 2010
Sonoma Plein Air Festival, May 2010
"WATER" Roby King Gallery Easton Plein Air 2011 "Americana" Roby King Gallery Sedona Plein Air 2011 Pacific Northwest Plein Air Competition 2011 American Society of Marine Artists National Touring Exhibit 2011/ 2012 "Small Works" Roby King Gallery Two Northwest Artists Roby KIng Gallery Kenneth Jack Memorial Exhibition American Watercolor Society Open Where in the World is Plein Air 2015 Washington Governor's Mansion Exhibition 2013/2014/2015 VAS Artist of the Year candidate 2017 Masters of Watercolor, St. Petersburg, Russia 2017/2018 Sonoma Plein Air 2018 Oceanside Museum of Art; "Southern California Inspirations"
