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January 7, 2025   My pastel painting "Sun Kissed" received Special Merit Award in the Fall 2024 Art and Color 365 Magazine issue.   This show will be on their website online exhibition for a full year.     [...]

I’m very honored to be selected to be a part of “Up Your Arts” downtown Southport, NC Pole banner project to be hung in May of 2024. More details below…   We are so proud to announce the names of the artists selected to have their artwork displayed on banners in downtown Southport next year! Chosen by a three-judge panel from a group of 71 submissions to represent our “Raise Up Your Arts” pole banner project, their art is a mixture of 2D and 3D mediums—everything from paintings and photography to mosaics, pottery and fiber art to woodworking and glass, with equally varied [...]

On December 1st “Sun Kissed” won 2nd place in the 2022 GPE Pastel Dust Off Show and November 12th won the “Associated Artist” award of Southport, NC in Oak Island Art Guild.   I created a still life of oranges on a green velvety material draped over a tabletop. This setup was inside a black box with a warm light bulb spotlight inserted into an open on one side. Sun Kissed is a 8.5″ x 10.5″ pastel painting of an orange and orange slices. I used hard pastels, a variety of soft pastels and pastel pencils on a gridded grey pastelmat paper.   [...]