AQUAVENTURE 2023

JUROR’S STATEMENT

I am primarily a landscape artist working in soft pastels, oil pastels, charcoal, and watercolors. My work is realistic, but not photographic. I’ve been working professionally for the last ten years.

I’m a graduate of the University of Louisville, Hite Art Institute attaining a BFA in 1985. My major was printmaking and drawing. While there I served as the studio assistant for John Whitesell in printmaking.

I’ve had four gallery shows in Atlanta: a one-man show, a show with artist Mary Monk from New Orleans, a group show, and I also exhibited with the Southeastern Pastel Society International Show at Oglethorpe University. I’ve also been in two shows at Tim Faulkner Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky and gallery shows in Elizabethtown and La Grange, Kentucky. I stopped using the gallery system seven years ago.

My work hangs in collections in twenty-eight states and four foreign countries. In the last two years, the University of Kentucky Arts in Healthcare Programs has purchased fifty of my drawings and paintings.

I paint the places where I hike and work to create more than a reproduction but share the spirit of Nature’s beauty and the countless gifts it’s given me.

Gary Edward Jennings

FIRST PLACE

$500 CASH

Dennis Albetski, Lexington, KY

“Refining”

20x16

$1500

SECOND PLACE

$400 CASH

Sherrie Graham-Greene, Lexington, KY

“Catsura Glow”

30x21

$700

THIRD PLACE

$300 CASH

Wyn Ericson, Louisville, KY

“Hand Made”

22x30

NFS

HONORABLE MENTION

$100 CASH

Connie Tucker, Lexington, KY

“Peony”

20x16

$1000

honorable mention

$100 CASH

Jane Stoddard, East Amherst, NY

“Paddleboard Break”

29x21

$1800