Award of Excellence, OPA Eastern Regional Gallery Show
A Rare Sight, Eastern Bison
Charleston, SC
Nov 20 - Dec 19
Gold Medal in Oil Section of the 33rd Annual Bosque Art Classic
I am honored to have received the gold medal in the Bosque Art Classic for my painting "At The Gardens - The Melon Gang".
Quest for the West 2017 Patron's Choice Award Winning painting!
Indianapolis, IN
I'm exceptionally honored to have received the Patron's Choice Award for my painting "A Rhythm of the River" at the 2017 Quest for the West Show at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, IN.
The Agile Bark Canoe
I am honored to have received the January 2017 Best of Show award in the BoldBrush painting competition sponsored by FASO for my painting "The Agile Bark Canoe".
PleinAir Magazine Salon Competition
My painting "Spatterdock & The Alien" won the Best Water award in the recent December, 2015/January, 2016 bimonthly PleinAir Salon competition.
The painting is now considered a semi-final winner and will be considered for additional awards to be announced during the PleinAir Convention & Expo in Arizona in April 2016.
The Uninvited
I am proud to have received the Western Art Collector Magazine award in the 11th annual Art Renewal Center Salon competition 2014/2015, for my painting "The Uninvited".
It will be part of The Traveling ARC Salon Exhibition , at the MEAM museum in Barcelona , Spain from Nov. 17- Dec. 28. It will then travel to New York City, where the show will hang at the Salmagundi Club from Jan. 18 -Feb. 4, 2016.
PleinAir Magazine Salon Competition
My painting "Chasing Shadows" just took a top award in the PleinAir Salon competition and PleinAir magazine will be doing an article on the competition. The award was for the Studio paintings division, "Best figure in a landscape". The painting will now be considered for the yearly award.
Harrison Eiteljorg Purchase Award
Eiteljorg Museum of the American Indian: Indianapolis, IN.
My painting, A Secret Cache, was awarded the The 2013 Harrison Eiteljorg Purchase Award at the 2013 Quest For The West invitational show & sale at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, IN. This painting was purchased by the museum and will become part of the museum's permanent collection. The award is given out once a year during the annual Quest for the West show.
"It is certainly the greatest of honors to have your work forever exhibited beside the greats of western art in the museum's collection. Truly a proud moment for this old painter! The germ for this painting has been hanging around since I took a trip to Kentucky in 1989. Walking along the Cumberland River with several locals, we came upon a secluded small waterfall among the vegetation. I took several photos, but was told that another artist had plans to paint the scene. The slides of that scene sparked my interest every time I leafed through my binder from the Cumberland trip.
I respected that other artist, and did not develop my idea for a painting...until early this year. I cannot remember who the other artist was and I don't recall seeing any painting of the waterfall. It was time!
Just to be safe, I decided it would not be a waterfall in my painting, but a cave in which plunder might be secreted away. So, I developed how a few Native Americans may have tossed down things...working out my composition, slight light source and color values. As a waterfall, it may have been a nice composition...with a strong vertical. I chose to develop a zig-zag composition and use the vertical only for my figures.
I believe that I achieved my goal of producing a painting unlike any that I have seen before."
Best Figure in Landscape
I was honored to have won several awards for my "Great Falls of the Passaic" oil painting.
Most recently it was awarded the "Best Figure in Landscape" in the 2016 PleinAir Salon February/March competition. A few years earlier, it received Second Place in the Landscape Category and for being a finalist in the Art Renewal Center's 2013/2014 International ARC Salon Competition. The entire competition saw over 2,200 entries from over 1000 artists.
