2006
Coupeville Arts and Crafts Art Show
2007
Whatcom County’s La Bella Strada Art Competition
Coupeville Arts and Crafts Art Show - 3rd Place
2nd Annual Plein Air Painters’ U.S. Open
2008
March Featured Artist, Greenbank Farm
NW Watercolor Society 68th Annual Open Exhibition
National Watercolor Society All Members Exhibition
Sequim Annual Arts Show
Coupeville Arts and Crafts Art Show
West Coast Paper Art Exhibition
2009
Edmonds Arts Festival Juried Gallery
Coupeville Arts and Crafts Art Show – 2nd Place
2010
Edmonds Arts Festival Juried Gallery
Coupeville Arts and Crafts Festival - Honorable Mention
MEMBERSHIPS:
Associate, Northwest Watercolor Society
Associate, National Watercolor Society
ART DONATIONS:
2008 “Evening to Remember" Auction, Alzheimer’s
Association of Western and Central WA
2008,2009,2010 Oak Harbor Cancer Walk fundraiser raffle
2009,2010 Home Health Care & Hospice of Whidbey
General Hospital Art & Fashion Auction
2010 Museum Of Northwest Art Annual Auction
HONORS:
2008 Greenbank Loganberry Festival Poster
2009 Coupeville Arts and Crafts Festival Poster
3 Paintings hang in Sen. Haugen’s office
ART EDUCATION:
1964-65
George Muro & Nat Fast, Allan Hancock College
2007
Larry Mason Workshop
Joan McKasson Workshop
2009
Frank Webb Workshop
I grew up in Monterey CA. I painted through my youth, knowing I would grow up to be an “artist”…but it was the 1960s! There was Vietnam and the draft so I joined the Navy got married and ended up with a career as a Navy Photographer.
When I decided to start painting again, in 2006, there was no discussion what the medium would be. For me watercolor shines! I think, quite literally…watercolor shines! When it is laid down cleanly with the whites intact, the sparkle of the image makes the painting a magnet to me. I can’t stop looking at it. I don’t believe any other medium forces a painter to work with what it wants to do the way watercolor does. It runs, bleeds, mixes and separates on its own. And I love it!
For me, I believe that a lifetime won’t be enough to grasp the full capabilities of the medium and I am really sorry I wasted so much time finding my way back to it.
It’s been a long journey from my Monterey childhood to these Island paintings, but I feel a connection to the kid who wanted to be an “artist.”
And when I see a good watercolor, my greatest compliment to that artist is, “I wish I painted that.”
The Painter
History:
"It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else." Henri Matisse
Man! 60 years can really change a person
I painted "Forgotten" in 1965. Seems like an eternity ago.
Original watercolor paintings of Northwestern Washington by Whidbey Island painter Randy Emmons.
Randy Emmons
