Watercolors 2022
Art Exhibition Winners
Below are the biographies and/or artist's statements along with the artist's websites or emails.
Please visit the Watercolors exhibition page and contact the artists directly for purchase inquiries or to see more of their work.
Congratulations again to all the winners and thank you for sharing your talent with us.
Dancing In The Snow
14 x 20
Padma Aleti
First Place Winner
Padma started her artistic journey in her native India where she grew up the youngest of six children. She received a student pan watercolor set as a gift and was soon painting everything in sight, teaching herself new techniques as she mastered the ones she already knew. She pursued a career in graphic arts and web design, putting her artistic talents to good use.
Having worked with all mediums in the past, she gravitated to watercolor for its unruly fluidity and exquisite transparency. It seems fitting as watercolor is the most challenging of the mediums and Padma seems to thrive most as the challenge increases. She has become quite an accomplished painter, despite having no formal training nor the benefit of mentorship with a professional painter. She is completely self-taught. For her art is a labor of love; a way of speaking her heart out and being in unison with what nature has to offer. She loves to paint any subject that inspires her and her favorite paper is Arches and brushes are Escoda & Isabey Sable and Synthetic (Black Velvet) Silver Brushes. She has exhibited(Juried) in 'The Gallery' at Thompson Park Creative Arts Center, NJ in 2021, and two of her paintings got accepted into the upcoming Winter Exhibit (Juried) in the same gallery.
Back To Back
21 x 29
Linda McCord
Second Place
“Back to Back" is part of a series called, African Festival. During our travels to Detroit, the African Festival could be seen from our hotel window. I was fascinated by the beautiful costumes and the emotion of the people.
Linda McCord works in most of the two-dimensional mediums. She creates transparent watercolors, not wanting to use opaque methods. Her watercolor is slowly built up in many transparent layers. She has adapted a tedious resist method for her watercolors that she used in her silkscreens. McCord had taken numerous awards in international exhibits and has had her paintings published in several books. She is a signature member of California Watercolor Association, Northwest Watercolor Society, Georgia Watercolor Society, and International Society of Acrylic Painters. Her work is in the collection of several art museums, churches, and numerous private collections.
EL Captain Through The Trees
12 x 9
Theodore Heublein
Third Place
‘Why do you paint?’ is often asked of me. My answer is the question, ‘why do you breathe?’ There is something that has driven me from my earliest recollections, to try and capture that perfect moment I experience in the field, underwater, or on the ice, that I want to share. The world I see can be so beautiful it’s breathtaking. I paint all over the world out 'in the wild' at all times of day or night, and paint underwater with scuba gear, to try and capture these moments in various media.
Daniel Kabakoff
Ron Pattern
Honorable Mention
I grew up on the north bank of the Fraser River in British Columbia. I remember sitting around the kitchen table with my siblings and cousins over the rainy winters drawing. Later, when I realized art was my calling, I studied Graphic Arts and Illustration at Douglas College. I graduated in 1979 and began painting seriously. In 1987, I became a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
In the ‘80s, I married and traveled around the US, eventually settling in beautiful Whatcom County where I continued to study and paint while I raised my two children. In the early years of my career, I focused on watercolor, studying the paintings of Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and Ken Danby. Wyeth’s paintings in particular, have always deeply influenced me. I started jurying and exhibiting with the NWWS and became a signature member in 1995.
I currently paint in a studio at the historic Morgan Block Building in downtown Fairhaven in Bellingham, Washington. I still paint watercolor, but also, I like acrylic and egg tempera. My paintings are in many corporate collections, including Peace Health, West Coast Paper, and multiple private collections.
Katherine Peper
Honorable Mention
Kate Peper is a watercolorist originally from Minnesota, now living in Fairfax, California the past 25 years. She's worked as an 2D animator, graphic artist, rug designer but has always held on to watercolor as her mainstay medium. She's shown locally and nationally and managed a few prizes along the way. Now that she's retired, she paints, gardens and writes poetry regularly.
Regina Roland
Honorable Mention
After a career spent in the art of teaching, I decided to dabble in the art of watercolor. That dabble became a passion. A lover of nature, I draw peace and inspiration from all it has to offer. Many of my pieces transport me to sunny meadows or wooded realms where my spirit soars. Whether my work is realistic or abstract my wish is that this spirit has wended its way to my paintings.
My work has been juried into “Juxtaposition Exhibition”, March/April 2020, Ice House Gallery, Evanston Illinois, Chicago’s Gold Coast Art Fair, Summer 2020, 2020 International Exhibit at Oakton Community College, “Where Are We Now?: Activism of the Every Day,” ArtFluent/Boundless 2020, J Mane Gallery Seasons 2020, Little by Little 2020, Art Intersection, J Mane Gallery, Abstracts 2020, Honorable Mention, Watercolor 2021 Norris Art Center, St. Charles, Illinois, Absolutely Abstract 2021, MVA Gallery, Bethlehem Pennsylvania, Teeny Tiny Bold, Rountree Gallery, Platteville Wisconsin, Fine Line Gallery, Winter Palette, St. Charles IL.
Jos Stumpe
Honorable Mention
Jos Stumpe is a Dutch born artist living and working in New York since 2011. When he came to New York he just finished a BA Ceramic Design. So clay was his first medium as an artist after a career as a writer and editor for over 20 years in The Netherlands. In his first three years in New York Stumpe did a Studio Intensive at the National Academy School where he explored sculpture, printmaking and painting. When he got his own studio space Stumpe initially continued with painting in acrylic and oil. His visual language is abstract. His way of working is by chance. And it is by chance that in 2017 Stumpe came across the Japanese technique of water-based woodblock printing called Mokuhanga. A famous artist who has worked with woodblock printing is Helen Frankenthaler. Stumpe is inspired by the way she experimented with this medium and tried to make prints that look like paintings.