Artist's Statement

For years I have loved painting in transparent watercolor. My work now includes other water-based media and collage for the variety of experimental techniques possible with them. Currently, I'm exploring basic art elements - color, texture, opacity, shape, line - by painting without preliminary drawing or predetermined subject. It is instead an intuitive process. This may result in a non-objective image concerned purely with the relationship of such elements or it may produce a painting obviously echoing the natural world (an abstracted landscape perhaps). The painter Maxine Masterfield writes, "The representational artist is convinced that what is seen through the eyes is the reality, while the abstract naturalist senses that the reality lies less in the surface appearance than in how nature is experienced."

My ideal is a painting that draws someone to look again and discover, perhaps in a detail not seen before, a moment of harmony, energy, beauty.

Honors

Award of Distinction, Watercolor Society of Oregon Aqueous Media Exhibition, 2011
Best of Show, Tualatin Art Splash, 2008
Honorable Mention, Tualatin Art Splash, 2007
Second Runner-Up prize, North Clackamas Arts Guild Show, 2008
Windsor & Newton Painting Award, North Clackamas, 2008
5th Place, Watercolor Society of Oregon Aqueous Media Exhibition, 2006
Sweepstakes Award, WSO Aqueous Media Exhibition, 1990

Selected Juried Exhibitions

Western Federation of Watercolor Societies Exhibition, New Mexico 2011
Western Federation of Watercolor Societies Exhibition, Utah 2010
Watercolor Society of Oregon Juried Shows:
    Sunriver, October 2011
    Eugene, April 2011
    McMinnville, October 2009
    Florence, October 2008
    Hood River, April 2008
    Portland, 2007
    Tualatin, 2006
    Burns, 2005
    Troutdale, 1995
    The Dalles, 1993
    Eugene, 1991
    Salem, 1990
    Newport, 1989
Other Juried Art Shows:

    Beaverton Visual Arts Showcase
    Contemporary 4, Gresham, Oregon
    Celebration of Creativity, Beaverton, Oregon
    North Clackamas Arts Guild Show
    Art Festival in the Forest, West Linn, Oregon
    Tualatin Art Splash
    First City Arts Faire, Oregon City
    Southeast Portland Art Walk
    Village of Willamette Festival of the Arts

Education

Principia College (Illinois) B.A. with highest honors - Fine Arts & French double major
Portland Museum Art School - 13 evening school courses
Pacific Northwest College of Art - Saturday school
University of Oregon Extension - Illustrator®, Photoshop®, InDesign® classes
Workshops taught by Betsy Dillard Stroud, AWS; by Pat Dews, AWS; and by Irving Shapiro, AWS

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