Artist's Biography

The Pastel Journal, 2009 Honorable Mention in the Abstract & Non-objective Category

PAPO Award of Distinction, Third Place, Mirror Pond Gallery, Bend, Oregon

Honorable Mention, Northwest Pastel Society Exhibition, Gallery at Mercer View, Mercer Island, WA

Daler Rowney Award, WPW Members Exhibition, Kaewyn Gallery, Bothell, WA

Jack Richeson Award, NPS International Exhibition, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA

Award of Merit Pastel Society of the Southwest, Dallas, Texas

Alma Bernier Memorial Award Oklahoma Art Workshops, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Artist Showcase Award Sixth Annual Competition Manhattan Arts Magazine

Award of Merit Northwest Pastel Society, ’98 International Juried Exhibition

Award of Merit Northwest Pastel Society, Mirror Pond Gallery, Bend, Oregon

Best of Show Pastel Painters of Cape Cod, Chatham, Massachusetts

Cover piece Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society, UK, November 2002

Directors’ Award Northwest Pastel Society Members’ Show, Renton, WA

Encyclopedia of Living Artists 11th Edition competition, (back cover and centerfold)

Finalist 1999 Art Competition, The Artists’ Magazine, Experimental Category

Finalist 1997 Art Competition, The Artist’s Magazine, Experimental Category

First Juror’s Choice Artsearch ’98 The Mirabile Dictu Co. Putney, Vermont

Honorable Mention Art Calendar Crabbie Awards Contest, New York, NY

Kerygma Gallery Award CAA National Exhibition, Ridgewood, New Jersey

Merchandise Award Connecticut Pastel Society, Wallingford, Connecticut

President’s Award Pastel Society of the West Coast National Exhibition,

Scholarship Award Pastel Society of the West Coast National Competition

Second Place “Magnum Opus”, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Carmichael, CA

Silver Medal in Pastel Knickerbocker Artists 45th Classic, Scottsdale, AZ

Two Awards of Merit Southeastern Pastel Society, 8th National Exhibition