Kudos! My watercolour painting “Sitting Duck”was accepted into the 89th Annual Canadian Society Painters in Watercolour (CSPWC) 2014 Open Water.   This was pretty exciting in its own right as this juried show is open to international artists painting with transparent water-colour. Then I received a phone call earlier in the week to let me know that my painting has won a Magazine Award – this is so exciting!  Recognition is both liberating (or is it validating?) and encouraging.  This is the second award for this painting.  It also won second place in the SKB small painting show in Wyoming! As an artist we are most often hunkered down in our studios working away in solitary wondering if we are on the right…

I have great news to share. I just received news that my watercolour painting Mallard Trio has been selected as a finalist in The Artist’s Magazine 31st Annual Art Competition in the Animal and Wildlife category. It will appear among the lists of finalists that will be published in their December 2014 issue. This is really exciting news for me! The competition’s entries, over 7,500, were particularly strong this year. As editors, we had a difficult task to whittle the field; it is truly an achievement that your work was among the ones we sent to the jurors. Did I say EEEEEEEEEEEEEE