Robert O'Brien AWS, NWS

Robert J. O’Brien is a full-time artist and popular local, national and international workshop instructor. He has been painting in watercolor for over fifty years and studied art at the State University of NY at Buffalo as well as with noted artists such as Tony Couch AWS and the late Marshall Joyce AWS NA. 

He is a signature member of the American, National (Master Signature) and New England Watercolor Societies, among others. 

He recently won the Ogden and Mary Pleissner Award at the 158th International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society in New York and the Gold Medal at the 2025 Signature Members Juried Show of the New England Watercolor Society and the Bronze Medal at the 2024 Signature Members Show of the New England Watercolor Society both held at the Guild of Boston Artists. He also received the Mary Bryan Memorial Award for Watercolor at the 72nd Academic Artists National Exhibition at Arts Center East in Vernon CT.

Robert continues to be a sought- after juror and was the Juror of Awards for the 39th Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, in Old Forge, NY, and co-Juror of Awards for the 151st International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society.  He was recently featured in the 40th Anniversary issue of the Artists Magazine. Robert serves as the Scholarship Chair for the American Watercolor Society. He lives and paints in Weathersfield, Vermont and teaches workshops locally, throughout the United States, and abroad.




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