And the winners are…. Okay, I think I told you before about the art site that I hang out at. FAA. Anyway, they let you host art contests which helps give you exposure as well as the artists who join the contest. Well I recently hosted a contest for Watercolor paintings and I wanted to post the winners so other could see their beautiful works.


In First Place was: Patricia Henderson Purple Pursuasion






Patricia Henderson lives in Wallaceburg, Ontario, where she was born and raised. She is married and has two sons. Working full time at a medical laboratory, she spends most of her spare time painting. She has recently exhibited and sold paintings at the Eye for Art Exhibition in Chatham, and the Desmond Juried Art Exhibition in Ridgetown. She has been commissioned by a number of clients. Her subjects are many and varied, and include animals, portraits, and landscapes.

While watercolour is her first love, lately she has branched out into other watermedia, such as acrylics and gouache. She also enjoys combining various mediums and experimenting with different techniques. Patty is proud of her artistic ancestry. Her great, great uncle was renowned Canadian Landscape painter Homer Watson.

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In Second Place: Paul Dene Marlor Sunset Over Carra






Paul Dene Marlor was born in 1969 in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England. His passion for painting began at a very early age, and after graduating from Art College where he studied Graphic Design for 5 years, he set up his own business in graphics and sign design, after running this for more than 12 years, he decided the time was right to make the transition to Fine Art Painting.

Since then he has had solo and group exhibitions, and his work is included in public and private collections in britain and abroad. Paul predominately paints in watercolour, a medium which he enjoys for it's immediacy and fluidity. His work is varied including Landscapes, Seascapes, Still Life, Wildlife and Floral. www.pauldenemarlor.co.uk

And Finally taking Third was: Conrad Meischke Sunny Autumn Day

 

A professional artist for the past 40 years, Conrad is a graduate from the Graphic Academy in Munich, Germany. He immigrated to Canada in 1965 and lives and works from his home-studio in Brampton, Ontario. Collected all over the world, -- here in Ontario his Gallery Representation is: “Gallery 737” in Tweed, and “Gallery on the Lake” in Buckhorn, or visit his website: www.studioconrad.com

His work has been published in the past as cards, prints and giclée reproductions by Hallmark Canada, by UNICEF, Canada, by Canadian Art Prints Inc. Vancouver, and by Access Fine Art Ltd. Toronto. In 1999 Conrad has been awarded “Arts Person of the Year” in his hometown of Brampton, ON.
 
“Painting is my means of communicating my most intimate impression of nature, my emotional reaction to life my keen and lifelong interest in our Rural Heritage, and my deep feeling about my subjects and my world around me. The medium I use is mostly watercolour or egg-tempera, and although most of my work is done in my studio, I take extensive breaks hiking around rural Ontario in search of new subjects, new ideas and new inspirations,” As an artist I try to interpret nature because it is also my basic believe, that nature is a true source of peace. If my work is effective in communicating that belief, then it speaks for me and I would like to think, that I have succeeded in this effort.”