PHILADELPHIA WATER COLOR SOCIETY
Purchasing paintings from the 2018: Philadelphia Water Color Society’s members online show can be done directly through the artist. Please email vp1@pwcsociety.org for inquiries.
WINNERS
FIRST - Don Leong - Falling Water SECOND - Gwynn DiPilla - Strolling Central Park THIRD - Barbara Yoerg - Preaching to the Choir Awards of Merit Susan Weintraub - Rainy Day Debra Smith - Plain and Fancy Denny Bond - Abandoned Mary Rinderle Smith - Birch Forest Denise Athanas - Fantasy Honorable Mention Joanna Barnum - Rift Betz Green - Sofia 1 Matthew Bird - Still Life with Venus de Milo Jean K. Gill - Cherries Jubilee Cheryl Schlenker - Harbor Village Congratulations! | Juror's Statement: Stan Kurth I would like to thank Deena Ball and the Philadelphia Water Color Society for allowing me the distinguished privilege of judging the 2018 Members Online Show. It was a difficult task to say the least because there were so many quality paintings. It's never easy selecting the "best" paintings for awards in a pool which includes such a variety of well executed styles and subject matter. No two jurors would pick the same paintings. This is a primarily subjective business we as painters ascribe to. For me it came down to those paintings which exhibited superior technical ability or design, and more importantly those which also invoked a strong visceral response in addition to the aforementioned qualities. As is the case most often, I vacillated and revisited those on the cusp again and again but the top awards clicked right away. |