RECENT AWARDS:
NJWS 2025 Signature Member Online Exhibition Best in Show
GSWS 54th Open Juried Exhibition 2024, ISEA Innovations 2024, Merit Award
NJWS 81st Juried Exhibition 2023, NJWS Memorial Award
NEWS 47th International Exhibition 2023, QoR Artist Watercolors Award
CLWAC 124th Open Exhibition 2021, Catherine T. Ballantyne Memorial Award
Philadelphia Watercolor Society 2020 Online Member Show, Golden Artist Color Award
GSWS On The Road to 50 Juried Exhbition 2019, Princeton Brush Company Award
News 42nd International Exhibition 2018, Holbein Artist Materials Award I
Philadelphia Watercolor Society 117th Annual Works on Paper, American Picture Framing Award
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 121st Exhibition 2018, NJWCS Award
Philadelphia Watercolor Society 2017 Member Show, First Place Award
GSWS 48th Juried Exhibition (2017) GSWS Silver Members Award
NEWS Members Exhibition (2017), Honorable Mention
GSWS Members Exhibition (2016),Award of Excellence
NJWS Annual Open Exhibition (2016), Avery and Nina Johnson Award
EXHIBITIONS:
American Watercolor Society (AWS), New York, NY (2024)
San Diego Watercolor Society (SDWS), San Diego, CA (2022, 2023, 2024)
National Watercolor Society (NWS), San Pedro, CA (2022, 2024)
International Watermedia Exhbition (IWE), Houston, TX (2020, 2021, 2022, 2024)
40th Annual Adirondack Annual National Exhibition of American Watercolors (2021)
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Annual Open Exhibition (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024)
Creature Comforts Exhibition D&R Greenway Summer 2019
PWCS International Works on Paper, (2017, 2018, 2021, 2023)
PWCS Members Show (2017,2019, 2020)
NEWS Annual Juried Members Show, Middletown, NY (Feb 2017, 2019)
NEWS International Open Show (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016-2023)
PWS Annual Juried Exhibition (2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020)
NJWS Annual Open Juried Exhibition (2009, 2011,2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023)
NJWS Annual Elected Members Exhibition (2016, 2017)
GSWS Members Exhibition (2014 - present)
GSWS Open Juried Show (2012 - present)
Ellarslie Open 34, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ (2017)
LBI Plein Air Plus Exhibiton (2016)
SPLASH! Promising Watercolorists Ellarslie (Nov, 2014 - Jan, 2015)
NWS All Member Exhibition (2014)
Salmagundi Club (SCNY) Annual Juried Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Non-Members, New York, NY (2010)
Delaware Valley Art League Demonstrator and Workshop (February 2023)
Philadelphia Watercolor Society
Raritan Valley Art Association (RVAA) Demonstrator (January, 2018, January 2020)
Hunterdon Watercolor Society (HWS) Demonstrator (March, 2015)
Solo Exhibit, Bernardsville Library, Bernardsville, NJ (August, 2014)
JUROR EXPERIENCE:
NEWS Juror of Selection for 41st International Juried Exhibition ( 2017)
NEWS Juror of Awards, 2018 Annual Members Exhibition
Hunterdon Watercolor Society Member Exhibition 2019, juror of awards
Ocean Pines NJ Member Exhibition, Juror of Awards, 2024, 2025
PUBLISHED ITEMS:
American Watercolor Weekly Online Newsletter;
July 26, 2018: Ambassador of the Week
August 28, 2018: Featured Article: The Rewards and Challenges of Working with YUPO
The Raritan River: Our Landscape, Our Legacy by Judith Auer Shaw
Rutgers University Press, 2014, Page 1, watercolor painting “Buttermilk Falls”
MEMBERSHIPS:
Philadelphia Watercolor Society (PWCS), Signature Member
Pennsylvania Watercolor Society (PWS), Signature Member
San Diego Watercolor Society (SDWS), Signature Member
International Society of Experimental Artists, (ISEA), Signature Member
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club (CLWAC), Elected Member
New Jersey Watercolor Society (NJWS), Elected Member
Northeast Watercolor Society (NEWS), Signature Member
Garden State Watercolor Society (GSWS), Signature Member
American Watercolor Society (AWS), Associate Member
National Watercolor Society (NWS), Associate Member
TEACHING:
Instructor, Watercolor Techniques, Bridgewater, NJ
Tuesdays: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
PAST WORKSHOPS:
Reimagine an old Painting, CAA, Allendale NJ, February 2025
Yupo Workshop: CAA, Allendale NJ, May, 2024
Yupo Workshop: Delaware Valley Art League, February, 2023
Yupo Workshop: Vermont Watercolor Society, June 15, 2019
Yupo Workshop: November 17, 2018
Yupo Workshop: December 6, 2017
Student Exhibition Tewksbury Library, Tewksbury, NJ (Jan - Mar, 2014)
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
GSWS Member Show (2018 - Present) Chair
GSWS Open Juried Show (2015, 2016, 2017) Co-Chair
NJWCS Annual Associate Members Show (2014, 2015) Chair
PWCS Membership Chair (2018)
GSWS Vice President (2019 - present)
STUDIED UNDER:
Joseph Zbukvic (2023)
Mark Mehaffey (2021)
Stephen Quiller (2020)
Pat Dews, Workshop (2018)
Sterling Edwards, Workshop (2018)
Charles Reid, Workshop (2017)
Antonio Masi, Workshop (2015)
John Salminen, Workshop (2012, 2014, 2016)
Gerald Brommer, Workshop (2011)
Janet Walsh (2007)
Ruth Wilson (1997 - 2011)
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NJ JURIED SHOWS:
Bernardsville Library, Bernardsville, NJ, Annual Art Show (April 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Center for Contemporary Arts (various dates)
Tewksbury Art Show, Tewksbury, NJ (October 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)