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Save the dates, Open Studios happen the 2nd and 3rd weekends in October. I hope you can swing by to see what I’ve been painting this year.

Current Events and Exhibits

Portland Open Studios
October 10-11 and October 17-18, 2026

I’ll participate in Portland Open Studios again this year. As always this event happens on the 2nd and 3rd weekends in October. 111 artists were juried in this year and there will be a number of open studios in this area.

Awards

  • 2026 Oregon Art Center Watermedia Show
    Honorable Mention

  • 2023 Northwest Pastel Society Member Show
    Honorable Mention

  • 2021 Pastel Artists of Oregon Member Show, Brenda Boylan Jurors Award

  • 2021 SWA Vancouver Spring Show, Honorable Mention

Membership

  • Northwest Pastel Society

  • Pastel Society of the West Coast

  • Oregon Art Center

Past Exhibitions

  • 2026 Oregon Art Center
    Watermedia Show in May
    Community Exhibition in January

  • 2025 Portland Open Studios
    Open Studio held over two weekends in October, one of 105 Portland artists juried in this year.

  • 2025 Northwest Pastel Society Member Show
    Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, Oregon

  • 2025 Northwest Pastel Society International Exhibition
    Cole Gallery, Edmonds, Washington

  • 2023 Northwest Pastel Society Member Show
    Larson Gallery, Yakima, Washington

  • 2022 Pastel Artists of Oregon Spirit of Pastel Show
    Newberg, Oregon

  • 2022 Voices in Pastel, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Hilbert Museum at Chapman University, Orange, CA

  • 2022 Pastels USA/99 Voices in Pastel
    36th Annual International Open Exhibition, Contemporary Impressionism category, Morro Bay, CA

  • 2022 Northwest Pastel Society 36th Annual International Open Exhibition, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA

  • 2021 Pastel Artists of Oregon Member Show

  • 2021 Juried into Portland Open Studios

  • 2021 Oregon Society of Artists, Hope Reigns show, Portland, OR

  • 2020–2021 Featured Artist at Frame Central Macadam, Portland, OR

  • 2020 Art at the Cave Gallery (as part of the SWA Fall Show), Vancouver, WA

  • 2018 Northwest Pastel Society member show, Kirkland, WA

  • 2018 Pastels USA Competition Show, Morro Bay, CA


Some artists I’ve taken classes and workshops from