Watercolor International VII

Alexandros Pintilii Karciucas was born in Fălticeni (Romania) in 1985.  He started to paint since was a kid because his father is also painter.  After 10 years working byzantine mural and icons painting, in 2013 he started to dedicate himself 100% to watercolor.  Since than he participated to many exhibitions in România and other countries such as: Fabriano Italy,  Salon International de l'Acquarelle de Uckange France, International Watercolor 2 and 3 in Thessaloniki Greece , Birmingham England and many others. Between 2017 and 2022 was member of Birmingham Watercolor Society. In 2021 was selected as finalist at International Watercolor Masters Contest.   He was featured in many importants magazines such as : The Art of Watercolour (France), Pratique des Arts (France), Luxury, Fashion Premium Magazine and Libris from Romania.  Is one of the most important and prolific watercolor artist from Romania.

My preference has always been to express my feelings and impressions through drawing and painting. I attended the artistic community college in Vienna and took part in advanced courses of European and American artists, to expand my artistic perspective. Living part of the year in Vienna (Europe) and part in Punta Gorda (Florida), I try to express the beauty that I see around me. The excitement of the change of seasons and the elusiveness of nature are what inherently draw me to paint plein air landscapes. To catch a special moment of a day is an on-going exploration of emotion and mood, of color and light during her painting process. Plein air painting is a wonderful way to be outside and to be totally connected to the subject. But I also enjoy painting in my studio in Punta Gorda and Vienna. I  believe that a successful painting has a certain rhythmic and lyrical quality. IWS Co Leader Austria Member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists of Austria

Graduated from Repin Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Graphic Department An author of Book series "Masters of Watercolor" – “Music Planet”,  Co-founder and art director of the digital magazine "Planet of Watercolor" An active participant in international competitions, curator and member of the jury of exhibition projects and festivals, co-founder of the "Masters of watercolors" exhibition project, the initiator of the international competition of watercolors as part of the Biennale Art Bridge, the exhibitor of 10 solo and over 200 international exhibitions in the venues of private, urban and museum institutions, in particular: Hermitage-Vyborg State Museum (Russia), Mall Galleries (UK), Erarta Contemporary Art museum (Russia), museum of Gallen Kallela (Finland), city center Sanomatalo (Finland),  Art museum of Shenzhen (China), national Library in Nanjing (China), Museum of the Contemporary Art in Qingdao (China), Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai (...

Born in 1948, trained as a chartered accountant and initially not part of the art world, I got into watercolor in the early 90s, by the greatest of chance, seduced by the phenomenon of pigment fusion. At the end of 1998, I deepened my experience first with Roland Palmaerts both during course sessions and during outdoor internships. I also flitted with other renowned watercolor artists in order to take stock of other ways of seeing this wonderful medium. After having essentially treated landscapes and flowers, I have devoted myself since 2014 to constructed abstraction which combines geometric rigor based on prime numbers while favoring the flexibility of forms and the evanescence of colored gradations. I wish to show, among other things, that, notwithstanding such a precise and rigorous construction, the global vision entails a difficulty in perceiving the exact reality of things. Expositions principales Salon de l’aquarelle de Belgique – Namur 2005, 2011, 2013. Salon international de ...

Ong Kim Seng BBM. A.W.S. DF. N.W.S is one of the most highly-acclaimed watercolour artists in Asia. A full-time artist since 1985, Mr. Ong was awarded the Cultural Medallion in Visual Arts by the Republic of Singapore in 1990 and is a recipient of 8 awards from the prestigious American Watercolour Society (AWS) in New York. In 1990, he became the first Asian outside of the US to be awarded the AWS membership. He was conferred the distinguished Dolphin Fellowship by the Society in 2000. Displaying fluid strokes and excellent attention to detail, Mr. Ong’s watercolours are remarkable for their lyrical expressiveness and poetic charms. His paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world, including Singapore Art Museum, Agung Rai Museum and Neka Museum (Bali, Indonesia), and in other foreign missions and embassies of the Republic of Singapore. The watercolour maestro also counts Queen Elizabeth II of England, Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China, President...

New Century International Watercolor Curator. Once a watercolor lecturer in the Department of Business Design at the American Cultural University. Has been invited to Taiwan, France, Poland, USA, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, Mexico, Greece, Russian Federation, Moscow, and China, nearly 70 international exhibitions, 76 solo exhibitions, and nearly 300 joint exhibitions at home and abroad.  2012 Indonesia International Watercolor Tour Invitational Exhibition (Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Sony Bali.) Received the 2012 China Nanjing International Watercolor Painting Outstanding Artist Gold Medal.

I have always loved making art. I started drawing and painting at a young age and took art classes through high school, but my main focus was mathematics. In college, however, I realized that I had more passion for art, and I ultimately graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.  After graduation, I moved to NYC and began working as an assistant at several design companies, eventually becoming a professional graphic designer. I juggled my time between design and art until 2017 when I turned to painting and teaching watercolor classes. My graphic design background continues to be a big advantage for me as an artist and instructor.  Teaching students to paint in watercolor is my passion… I love seeing their expressions when they experience the absolute “magic” of this amazing medium. My favorite subject to teach is portraits, but my ongoing classes cover all genres. I am a long time volunteer and Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society (NWWS), having served as P...

I was born in Riga Latvia and grew up in Zeimelis Lithuania. I graduated from Kaunas P Mažylis medical school in 1989 with a nursing degree. In 2002, my family and I, moved to San Diego California. I got my introduction to watercolor in 2008 from instructor Kate Fitzsimons at San Diego Community College. I started showcasing my watercolor paintings during the San Diego County Fair student showcase. In 2013 I became a member of the San Diego Watercolor society and started being featured in their monthly show. Over the past years I received multiple Juror Commendation and Honorable mention awards from the San Diego Watercolor society. I am also a member of the Watercolor West, Fallbrook art quild, SWA, AWS, NWS, NWWS. I have been featured in watercolor exhibits with the International Watercolor society all over the world including France, Vietnam, Greece, Slovenia, Spain, Bulgaria, Australia, Albania, Poland, Canada, Turkey, Argentina. In 2023 I became Watercolor West Signature Member.

Formation aux Beaux-Arts de Calais.  Anime des ateliers de pratique artistique pour adultes, intervenante pour l’Éducation nationale.Sociétaire des Artistes Français Paris, Médaille d'Argent 2020. Sociétaire de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris, de la Fondation TAYLOR, des Arts, Lettres et Sciences de Paris. Membre de Mondial Art Académia (Médaille d'Argent 2024). Membre d'IWS France (International Watercolor Society), Sociétaire de la Société Française de l'Aquarelle, du Mérite et Dévouement Français, du Salon du dessin & de la peinture à l'Eau, Grand Palais, Paris. Sociétaire de l'Académie des Arts, Sciences et Lettres de la Mer. Galerie Internet de la Société des Artistes Français Paris www.artistes-Français.com  Membre d'Aquarellistes en Nord. Expositions en Pologne, Allemagne, Turquie, Grèce, Italie, Estonie, Ukraine, Chili, Inde, Finlande ... Invitée d'honneur des grands salons d'aquarelle en France (Rochemaure, Bruges, Deville, ...

Michael is often called a “sunny watercolorist” – his airy, transparent artworks look as though they emit the sunlight. His traditional academic art education, extensive experience as a head theater stage designer, and oil painter career now inform his priority as a watercolor artist – light.  His main belief is that sometimes even a pile of rubbish with beautiful lighting can become an artwork.  Michael is a watercolor artist of great renown, with exhibitions and workshops all over the world, from Bolivia to France to Australia. Signature Member CSPWC NWS SCA NEWS IWS PWCS   Daniel Smith Brand Ambassador   Escoda International Brand Ambassador     Baohong Masters International Ambassador   International Academy of Watercolor Honorary Member

From my experiences directing events, I have been able to live with the best watercolorists worldwide and watch them work. In 2020, with the confinement due to the pandemic, I experimented and applied these experiences to my own works and, with this, I strengthened my style. Likewise, by being able to focus solely on my craft as a painter, I was able to give direction to my ideas so that I discover that I have made progress in my technique, I have improved in the way of communicating through my works and I have deepened my arguments. Currently, I greatly enjoy expressing my concerns and complaints in my work, as well as happy and promising moments. In each work I find new challenges and some message to the viewer, always leaving a space for them to interpret it freely based on their criteria. I am convinced that the work of each artist is unique and that personal experiences give it uniqueness. That is why I consider that the most important thing about my contribution as an artist is h...

Artist Sergiy Lysyy was born in 1971. May 14 In Odessa, Ukraine. Studied in Ukraine, Faculty of Arts. Since 2012 he has been living and working in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Since 2014 actively participates in international exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad: England (RI), China, Hong Kong, India, Sweden, Italy, Mexico, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine. In 2015 he became the Top 20 winner in Bornova, Turkey, in 2017 he became the first place winner in the international competition ABURAWASH PRIZE with the painting Vilnius, in 2018 he won the international competition 2018 Best of Landskape. - GAWA International Watercolor, 2019 local winner at the international exhibition in Mexico with the painting "Evening" (Klaipeda Bridge), 2020. became the winner of the international exhibition SDWS (San Diego Watercolor Society's 40th International Exhibition) with the painting "Madrid", 2021. participated in the exhibition NWS National Watercolor Society with the painting "New Mo...

Ze Ze Lai is an acclaimed watercolor artist from Hong Kong.  She draws inspiration from nature, and her expertise is in painting animals and birds.  Ze Ze adopts an impressive range of styles in her art practice. From painting soft and dream-like scenes of small birds in the forests, to her use bold dynamic strokes and granulating textures, she takes her viewers on a journey of imagining the peculiar lives and small moments of the little animals in nature.  Ze Ze has received numerous awards for her paintings, her works have been widely exhibited around the world.

Since early childhood, painting has been a fundamental part of my life. It has not only shaped my personal development but also established itself as an essential means of communication—a language through which I convey ideas, emotions, and reflections that transcend words. My work is rooted in a profound engagement with nature. A pivotal moment in my career was the award of an artist residency scholarship in Iceland, which enabled me to immerse myself fully in the raw, ever-changing landscapes of the region. There, I began to focus more deeply on the atmospheric conditions, light, and elemental forces that continue to inform my artistic vocabulary. Watercolour became my medium of choice, valued for its immediacy, transparency, and capacity to suggest the ephemeral. Recurring motifs in my work include glaciers, skies, ice, seas, volcanoes, and ships—elements that serve as metaphors for inner states and emotional resonance. I often modify compositions during the creative process in orde...

Joel Popadics has been a professional artist for over 30 years. His watercolors have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums across the United States including the National Academy of Art and Design in New York; the Place St. Charles Gallery in New Orleans and the San Francisco Academy of Art in San Francisco. He is an annual exhibitor in the "International Marine Art Exhibition" at the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut. His paintings are in public and private collections most notably, the Art for Healing Program at University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, NJ; the Hamilton House Museum in Clifton, NJ; The Ridgewood Art Institute Permanent Collection and the United Methodist Church in Ridgewood, NJ. His artwork has raised money for charitable organizations such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Table-to-Table Food Bank Network and the LAM Foundation.  Mr. Popadics is the recipient of numerous national awards.  He ha...

Karen Noll Schaaf uses transparent watercolors to express the beauty of the human experience and to capture the unique moments of life. Her most recent accolades include an Award of Excellence at the 2023 Watercolor International VI in Thessaloniki, Greece. She was chosen to represent the USA team at the FabrianoinAcquarello International Watercolor Congress.  Nationally, Karen was juried into both the 2023 Watercolor USA National exhibit, andthe 2023 Southern Watercolor Exhibit. An internationally award-winning artist and instructor, Schaaf has earned her signature status in the National Watercolor Society, the Southern Watercolor Society, the Georgia Watercolor Society, and the Watercolor Society of North Carolina. Karen earned her Fine Arts degree at the University of Maryland, and her master’s degree in Instructional Design at Virginia Tech.

In 2009, a friend took Frank to his first watercolor show. The talent surprised him... and it got him excited about the medium.  Soon after, he began a serious exploration of watercolor. Frank started his career as a sign painter. He painted thousands of walls and windows, developed logos and branded businesses, large and small. Later, as a billboard painter, he often painted a 10’ x 36’ billboard in a single day. As the age-old craft of signpainting began to wane due to the advancement of computer technology, he went with the rising tide and transitioned to computer graphics. Frank’s decades of creating good design, his knowledge of color, and tens of thousands of hours with a brush in hand were of tremendous benefit when he finally turned his eye towards watercolor. Frank’s watercolors have been selected for exhibitions: World of High Watercolor in Russia, Missouri Watercolor International Exhibition in Spain, World Watercolor Masters at the International Watercolor Society in Ho...

Stephen Zhang is an accomplished water media artist and design professor with a passion for creating large-scale watercolor paintings that showcase his fluid, expressive, and empathetic style. Born in China, he graduated from Luxun Academy of Fine Arts and received his MFA from the University of North Texas. In addition to his successful career as a design leader spanning over 30 years, Stephen is currently an assistant professor in Communication Design at the University of North Texas. Stephen's artwork has received widespread recognition both nationally and internationally, with awards and features in numerous prestigious exhibitions and publications such as the Signature American Watermedia International Exhibition, Watercolor USA, American Illustration, Chinese National Art Exhibition, American Art Collector, and International Artist. Stephen's artwork has been sought after by private collectors and corporations, and his paintings have been exhibited at the US Embassy in Eq...

Irene Gravender paints in series. These are paintings inspired by the abstraction of nature. Puddles after rain, melted snow, autumn slush in the forest. There is a series of portraits. The artist's favorite genre is still life from simple things that accidentally ended up together and have a symbolic meaning. Irene Gravender studied watercolor technique since childhood at the Moscow art school. Later, she studied drawing, painting and book illustration at the University of Printing and Book Design (diploma) in Moscow. Since 1986, she has worked as a freelance artist, illustrator of illustrated books and private drawing teacher. The artist has exhibited in Russia, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Greece and Germany. Since 1996, she has lived in Germany and is a member of the German Watercolor Society (DAG) and the Association of Fine Artists in Bonn.

I was born in New York, USA, my grandparents having arrived to Ellis Island as immigrants from the Ukraine and Russia.   I trained both as a ballet dancer and as an artist, at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston.  Living and working in London, I became a proud citizen of the UK. I am an elected member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, and serve on the  RI Council as Social Media Curator.   I am attracted to mysterious, strange, sublime and supernatural themes. We artists are porous, absorbing energies beyond ourselves, and so I find that my work explores both primeval time, fantasies of ancestral homeland, and current turmoil about contemporary world crises.

Ann Larsson-Dahlin is a distinguished Swedish watercolor artist renowned for her large-scale landscape paintings, which are characterized by a profound interplay of light and shadow. Her works often capture the grandeur of nature, ranging from the dramatic landscapes of Iceland to the serene forests of Sweden and the fjords of Norway. Larsson-Dahlin's approach to watercolor is both experimental and expressive; she skillfully blends precise illustrations with a more playful, painterly style. This unique combination allows her to evoke a deep connection to the natural world while leaving room for the viewer's imagination. - - -  "My home is in a small village in the north of Sweden. In recent years, many of my paintings have been filled by my euphoria for the powerful magic Icelandic landscape. Memories from some trips around Iceland have resulted in several quite big watercolors and also of cause smaller ones, in where I tried to capture my feelings for some characteristics...

Sun Jiangang, (孙建刚) male, was born in 1972 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China.  He graduated from Shanxi Normal University, with skills in painting, watercolor, and pen. He is now a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a member of the Hong Kong Federation of Literary and Art Circles Artists Association, a chairman of the Hong Kong International Artists Association pen painting committee and vice chairman of the oil painting art committee.   He is a Taiwan World Watercolor Alliance member, an IWS Canada Member, and a director of Chinese pen Painting Association.

Stanislaw Zoladz, born in Poland in 1952, moved to Sweden after completing his art education at the Art Academy in Krakow in 1978. Since then he has been active as a full-time artist in Sweden.  He’s participating in many international exhibitions over the world. He has been recognised as “master of watercolours “ after years of painting and many prizes in international competitions.  Stanislaw’s words about his art:  "Nature has always been my source of inspiration, it dominates my works. In the summer I paint in the archipelago. I wait for the sun's reflections on wet rocks, catch shadows, reflections in water and paint stones under the water's surface. My paintings do not provoke, they lack a direct message, they do not depict the present, but they should make the viewer stop and reflect. I only paint when I myself experience something that touches me and that is the feeling I want to pass on to the viewer".

Celebrating over 60 years in the arts, Anne Hightower-Patterson has earned national recognition for her quintessentially American watercolors. She holds the honor of being a signature member of both the American Watercolor Society—where she was a past recipient of the 2018 High Winds Medal—and the Transparent Watercolor Society. She also has memberships in the Rocky Mountain National Watercolor and various state-level organizations. Her art collection vividly captures the essence of her Southern roots, portraying soulful African American subjects, sun-drenched landscapes, and luminous still lifes. Born in South Carolina, Anne’s artistic journey started at the age of 12 when her school introduced art programs, sparking her creative spirit. Anne completed her BFA in Studio Art from the University of South Carolina in 1972 and followed it up with a master’s degree in education in 1975. Retiring after 29 years in public education, she now dedicates herself full-time to her art studio, teac...

A native of Naples, Florida, Annie Strack is a classically trained professional artist whose formal art school training included advanced studies of numerous artistic mediums. Although she is best known as a Modern Master of maritime painting, she is also an experienced expert in many other mediums, subjects, and styles. As a commercial artist, her designs have been used by hotels, restaurants, retailers, and other businesses for decades. An experienced drafter, she has created architectural renderings for dozens of architects and building contractors and her renderings have been featured in numerous publications.  Her extraordinary paintings are exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world, and have been featured in 24 solo shows. She exhibits in a multitude of national and international juried shows and her artwork has won hundreds of distinguished awards and grants.  Annie Strack’s experience as an art instructor spans over 40 years. She was a pioneer of online a...