Memories of Cuba

Last year we took a wonderful trip to Cuba.  We spent 12 days on a "people to people" exchange, touring the country and visiting artists studios, senior centers, historical landmarks, day care centers, fishing villages, museums and dance and music venues.  The following paintings are faces and places from this fascinating country that touched me in some way. 

2017 Annual WASH Open Show

Lost in Paris won the Julie Hoey Award for the year's annual WASH Open Show. My other 

painting that was accepted for the show is Afterlife, a painting of the cemetery we visited in Lismore, Australia where my husband's great aunt is buried.

Latest Show Entries

Hand Picked

I entered three paintings in the 2017 Sacramento WASH Members Show.  Hand Picked got Best of Show!

The Moms

Which Am I

From January 14 to February 25, my painting, On Vacation, hung in the 47th National Exhibition of the California Watercolor Association.  This is my first national show!  It was fun to go to the opening in Pleasanton with family and friends. 

On Vacation

2016 WASH SHOW

 

 

Amazingly, for the second year in a row, I received the Best of Show award for one of my paintings at the annual open WASH show. This year it was for Fall Colors.

 

The painting is of persimmons from my back yard, in one of my pottery bowls, with some dried seed pods from the back yard, all sitting on my grandfather's rug, which I love to include in paintings.

Fair Time

 

This year I decided to try entering some paintings in art shows outside of Sacramento.  News in Wellington was accepted to the California State Fair, one of 180 out of 1200 entries.

I also entered 3 paintings in the Amador County Fair and got a first, second and third.

On Vacation

 

Fall Color

 

New Mexico  Cliff

 

  

 

2015 WASH Open Show Entries

Smart Wool

  I recently had 2 paintings accepted for the Watercolor Artists of Sacramento Horizons (WASH) 2015 Annual Open Show.  I am so excited that one of the paintings, Smart Wool, won Best of Show!  The painting is of sheep we saw herded on a sheep station in New Zealand earlier this year. 

On Vacation

Recent Show Entries

Finding the Light

I am excited to have paintings included in two shows at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center.  Last month "Some Hieronymous Bosch Hiding at the Cluny" was in the In the Style of the Old Masters Show.  "Finding the Light" and "Hiding in the Ruins" were just accepted for the annual WASH Open Show.  "Finding the Light" has received an award. 

Hiding in the Ruins

Some Hieronymous Bosch Hiding at the Cluny