2018 MEMBER EXHIBITION

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.